Officials at the U.S. Army base in Fort Lee, Va. gave the all-clear Monday morning after a female soldier injured herself during an active shooter incident there.
In a post on its Facebook page, Fort Lee said early reports indicate the shooter was a female soldier who turned a gun on herself. The soldier was transported to Virginia Commonwealth University Medical Center, but her condition was unknown. The Army base said it was investigating the incident.
The installation had been locked down after an incident was reported around 9 a.m. ET at the U.S. Army Combined Arms Support Command (CASCOM) headquarters, building 5020.
The all-clear was later issued at around 9:50 a.m. ET.
The army base had been preparing to roll out a a new emergency notification system called Fort Lee Alert in the coming weeks, an operations specialist recently told the Fort Lee Traveler.
This post has been updated.
Not good.
Hope it resolves with no loss of life.
THIS whOLE mess COULD have BEEN avOIDed IF the MILITAry WERE abLE to CARRY GUNS!!!1!!!one!!!1!!!
Fort Lee is the Army Quartermaster headquarters. it isn’t exactly the place you’d expect to see soldiers in full combat gear, doing training exercises.
known as the home of the “Fighting Staplers”, it’s probably the last military base you’d expect something like this to happen. hope the young woman is ok, and she gets the help she obviously needs, to deal with whatever mental demons prompted this.
What about the gun? The gun was probably traumatized, too. Will anyone see to it that the gun gets the help it needs?
No one ever thinks of the guns.
The best active shooter is the one who points the gun at themselves, no innocents get killed.
Now get this woman the help she obviously needs.