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Shooter at Fort Lee Army Base—All Clear Given

Virginia base tweets of active shooter Monday morning.

Elizabeth Nolan Brown | 8.25.2014 9:56 AM

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Update, 12:10 p.m.: AP now has more details about this morning's shooting at the Fort Lee Army base in central Virginia. "A female soldier with a gun…turned the weapon on herself, causing an injury, but didn't wound any others," AP reports. "The Army statement did not identify the shooter and said officials would not immediately release any further information."

Update, 10:24 a.m.: The Fort Lee Army base is reporting on Facebook that an all clear has been given.

Update, 10:11 a.m.: According to some commenters on the Fort Lee Facebook page, the base has given an all-clear.

An active shooter is reportedly at large at the Fort Lee Army base in Virginia, about 30 minutes outside of Richmond. At around 9:30 a.m. Monday morning, the base's verified Twitter account tweeted:

Active shooter incident reported at CASCOM HQ, Bldg. 5020. All personnel enact active shooter protocols immediately. Post on lockdown.

No other details were immediately available, according to AP. 

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Elizabeth Nolan Brown is a senior editor at Reason.

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  1. Smoking Frog   11 years ago

    Lots of good guys with guns there, so there’ll be no casualties except the shooter, right??

    1. mad.casual   11 years ago

      Since when do we wish for the death of a shooter before we even know if anyone has been shot/killed?

  2. Bones   11 years ago

    Ruth A Hunter is homonym challenged.

    1. DK   11 years ago

      Ruth A Hunter – pray/prey. I think you’ve identified the shooter, Bones.

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