Fort Lee in Virginia was under a brief lockdown this morning as a female shooter barricaded herself in a building before turning her pistol on herself. No additional injuries have been reported.
A shooter stormed a building at Fort Lee outside Petersburg, Va., barricading herself in an office before shooting herself in the head Monday morning. The unidentified shooter has been taken to the Virginia Commonwealth University Medical Center. Her condition is unknown at this time.
?We are sad for our soldier in arms that she faced those kinds of challenges she had to resort to those kinds of actions,? Maj. Gen. Stephen Lyons told reporters during a press briefing Monday. ?At the same time, we?re grateful because this situation could have been worse.?
Each day some 34,000 people, including service members from all military branches, their families, civilians, and contractors, pass through Fort Lee, which is located 130 miles south of Washington. There were 1,100 people inside the building at the time of the incident; there have been no additional reports of injuries.
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