Shooter opens fire in a classroom building at the Naval Air Station in Pensacola, killing three people before being shot dead by police
The main gate at Naval Air Station Pensacola is seen on Navy Boulevard in Pensacola, Florida, US, March 16, 2016.
Police received their first call about the shooting shortly before 7 am , Escambia County Sheriff David Morgan told a press conference. One of the responding deputies eventually killed the attacker. A US official, however, said that the shooter was an aviation student from Saudi Arabia, the Associated Press said.
Just two days prior on Wednesday, a US sailor fatally shot two people and wounded a third at the Pearl Harbor Naval Shipyard in Hawaii before taking his own life.The Pensacola naval air station hosts 16,000 military personnel and more than 7,000 civilians and is home to a flight demonstration squadron.While mass shootings in the United States are common, those at military facilities are rare.
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