{"id":10370,"date":"2013-09-16T18:41:48","date_gmt":"2013-09-16T18:41:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/praag.org\/?p=10370"},"modified":"2013-09-16T18:45:53","modified_gmt":"2013-09-16T18:45:53","slug":"at-least-12-die-in-us-navy-yard-shooting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/praag.org\/?p=10370","title":{"rendered":"At least 12 die in US Navy Yard shooting"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"navyshooting\"<\/a>At least one gunman opened fire inside a building at the Washington Navy Yard on Monday morning.

Police were looking for two other potential gunmen wearing military-style uniforms, including one who had on a beret, chief Cathy Lanier said.<\/p>\n

DC Mayor Vincent Gray said at least 12 people were killed in the Navy Yard rampage and one shooter killed at the scene. Authorities are looking for two other men who may also have been involved in the attack.<\/p>\n

Authorities have identified the dead shooter as a Navy employee whose work status had been changed earlier this year, a federal government official told the Associated Press on condition of anonymity because he wasn\u2019t authorized to speak on the record.<\/p>\n

While that may suggest the motive was job related, authorities haven\u2019t ruled out anything, including terrorism, the official said.<\/p>\n

A senior federal law enforcement official said authorities were investigating whether the main shooter, a black male, was motivated by a dispute with employees at the Navy Yard.<\/p>\n

Authorities were still clearing the building early Monday afternoon but expected the death toll could reach as high as eight people, including the shooter, said the official, who spoke only on condition of anonymity.<\/p>\n

The two at large suspects were dressed in military garb but are not believed to be US service personnel, Lanier said.<\/p>\n

One was a young white man in a khaki like uniform and the other was a black man in his 50s with a long rifle in an olive colored garb, she said.<\/p>\n

Lanier said there were multiple fatalities at the scene but exact numbers were not immediately.<\/p>\n

A Navy spokesman said early Monday that four people were killed and eight wounded in shooting at the Washington Navy Yard \u2014 though the death toll is expected to climb.<\/p>\n

Mayor Vincent Gray said officials are still working to determine the number of fatalities during a press conference at noon.<\/p>\n

All the injuries occurred in the Building 197, which is home to the Naval Sea Systems Command.<\/p>\n

Navy officials had reported three shots were fired at 8:20 a.m. at the headquarters of the Naval Sea Systems Command in Southeast Washington.<\/p>\n

DC police quickly deployed an \u201cactive shooter team\u201d within seven minutes of reports of shots fired, Ms. Lanier said.<\/p>\n

Two of the shooting victims are DC police officers.<\/p>\n

Omar Grant, a civilian worker at the Navy Yard said he was on the first floor of the five-story atrium when he heard the first shot. \u201cAt first I didn\u2019t know if someone dropped something,\u201d Mr Grant said. \u201cIt echoes in an atrium.\u201d<\/p>\n

Then he heard the other shots, Mr. Grant said.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was unmistakable,\u201d he said. \u201cNobody had dropped anything. Those were shots.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Navy has issued a shelter-in-place order for personnel, Pentagon Press Secretary George Little said.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe believe there has been loss of life and several injuries,\u201d Little said. \u201cWe continue to monitor this ongoing situation.\u201d<\/p>\n

George Washington University Hospital has confirmed that a 60-year-old male was killed in the Navy Yard shooting Monday morning.<\/p>\n

A spokesman said the man, whose name was not given, was dead on arrival to the hospital at around 9 a.m, about 40 minutes after the shooting.<\/p>\n

The spokesman said the man was shot in the left temple and the wound was \u201cnot survivable by any stretch.\u201d<\/p>\n

The hospital said it was told to be prepared to take more victims of the shooting.<\/p>\n

A spokeswoman for Medstar Washington Hospital Center said the hospital has already received three people wounded in Monday\u2019s shooting at the Navy Yard and \u201cwe\u2019ve been told to expect more.\u201d<\/p>\n

The rampage plunged DC into chaos during the morning commute.<\/p>\n

The 11th Street Bridge was shut down, and people were routed away from the area, the police spokesman said.<\/p>\n

Flights departing from Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport were stopped, the FAA said, and incoming flights are being held at their origin. Flights resumed shortly after 11 a.m.<\/p>\n

At least six DC public schools in the area went into lockdown.<\/p>\n

Also, people in the neighborhood around Fort Myer could hear a \u201cshelter in place\u201d order being issued over the loudspeakers about the time of the shooting.<\/p>\n

About 3,000 people work at the headquarters of the Sea Systems Command, which is responsible for engineering, building, buying and maintaining ships, submarines and combat systems for the Navy.<\/p>\n

The Washington Navy Yard is an administrative center for the Navy, housing the headquarters for several commands including Commander, Naval Installations Command, and Naval Sea Systems Command, which is located in Building 197 and is responsible for procurement and maintenance on the Navy\u2019s fleet of ships and submarines.<\/p>\n

The National Museum of the U.S. Navy and the Naval History and Heritage Command are also located on base. It also serves as the location for court martials, or military trials, for the Washington area, including Annapolis.<\/p>\n

It is the Navy\u2019s oldest shore command, according to Naval History and Heritage Command\u2019s website, and has been in operation since the beginning of the 19th century, first as a shipbuilding site before being designated as the manufacturing plant for all Navy ordnance after the Civil War.<\/p>\n

It is now used for ceremonial and administrative functions, like change of command ceremonies for Navy leaders like the Master Chief Petty Officer of the Navy or the Chief of Naval Personnel. – Washington Times<\/p>\n

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