Man Shot By Security Guard In Lobby Of Local DC Fox Station

Police respond after a man was shot by a security guard while trying to force their way into the offices of WTTG Fox 5 in Washington, Monday, Oct. 22, 2018. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)
Police respond after a man was shot by a security guard while trying to break into the lobby of a building housing the offices of WTTG-TV, the local Fox broadcast affiliate in Washington, Monday, Oct. 22, 2018. (AP P... Police respond after a man was shot by a security guard while trying to break into the lobby of a building housing the offices of WTTG-TV, the local Fox broadcast affiliate in Washington, Monday, Oct. 22, 2018. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik) MORE LESS

WASHINGTON (AP) — A security guard shot a man at Washington’s local Fox station Monday after he kicked through a pair of locked doors and tried to enter the lobby, police said.

Commander Melvin Gresham of the Metropolitan Police Department told reporters that the man was apparently unarmed and was in stable condition at an area hospital.

The incident just after 3 p.m. in Washington’s Friendship Heights neighborhood put the Fox 5 news crew in the unusual position of covering their own shooting incident live from a building on security lockdown.

The channel broadcast security camera footage showing a man in a red, hooded sweatshirt kicking through the plastic or Plexiglas doors. It also showed footage of the still-conscious man being loaded into an ambulance. The channel reported that the 38-year-old man was shot in the “upper chest” by a security guard.

The building in question contains several different offices, but the lobby the man entered is only for the Fox station.

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  1. Maybe it was a fact checker trying to bring reality into the building. He got as far as any of the others who have tried, I guess.

  2. Farther. He got past the door and into the lobby.

    Anyway, I guess security is pretty tight at FOX stations. It would have to be, as fearful as they all claim to be.

  3. Two officials familiar with the investigation said the man was a 38-year-old District resident. Court records show that the man has filed more than two dozen federal lawsuits in recent years alleging that he is being controlled by a microchip planted in his head. All have been dismissed.

    I’m amazed he wasn’t killed.

    https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/public-safety/man-shot-in-lobby-of-fox-5-television-station-in-northwest-washington-police-said/2018/10/22/d3f31572-d631-11e8-83a2-d1c3da28d6b6_story.html?utm_term=.2f0fce57f30b

  4. False flag.

    Boy, some people will do anything for ratings : - )

  5. FOX needs to get their money back on that door. I would have thought a door like that could not be merely kicked in.

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