A shooter at the Naval Air Station in Corpus Christi, Texas 'no longer poses a threat,' the U.S. Navy said, after a security force member was injured in events that unfolded early Thursday morning.
Police officers stand at a checkpoint after a shooting incident at Naval Air Station Corpus Christi, Texas, U.S. May 21, 2020. Annie Rice/Caller-Times/USA TODAY NETWORK via REUTERS
- A shooter at the Naval Air Station in Corpus Christi, Texas “no longer poses a threat,” the U.S. Navy said, after a security force member was injured in events that unfolded early Thursday morning. The shooting started at 6:15 a.m. CT and hurt one sailor, who sustained minor injuries and was released from a hospital, the Navy Information Office said in a statement.The FBI will lead an investigation into Thursday morning’s events, the Navy said.
Late last year, a Saudi gunman killed three U.S. sailors in an attack at the Pensacola Naval Air Station in Florida, just days after a U.S. sailor shot three civilians at the historic Pearl Harbor military base in Hawaii, killing two of them before taking his own life. Reporting by Lisa Lambert and Susan Heavey in Washington; Additional reporting by Maria Caspani in New York; Editing by Bernadette Baum, Lisa Shumamker and Jonathan Oatis
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