Report of gunshot triggered lockdown at Air Force base
Source: AP
WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Ohio (AP) — Ohio’s Wright-Patterson Air Force Base went into lockdown for several hours while security officials investigated reports of a shooter on the campus but eventually gave the all-clear early Friday morning.
Two individuals reported hearing one gunshot at the base just east of Dayton just after 9 p.m. Thursday, said Col. Patrick Miller, the Installation Commander at Wright-Patterson AFB. The report initiated a series of events leading to the lockdown.
Over the next four hours, officials from the 88th Airbase Wing said responders conducted two sweeps of the National Air and Space Intelligence Center, a three-story, 850,000-square-foot headquarters for the center described as the Department of Defense’s primary source for foreign air and space threat analysis.
The lockdown was lifted with the announcement of an all-clear around 1:40 a.m.
People wait in their cars inside the main gate of Wright-Patterson Air Force Base during a lockdown Friday, Sept. 10, 2021, in Dayton, Ohio. The base was put on lockdown due to a report of an active shooter but was later given the all clear. (AP Photo/Jay LaPrete)
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