![]() The Pentagon Force Protection Agency, which oversees the. that the lockdown was lifted and the facility reopened. CNN A police officer died Tuesday after shots were fired outside the Pentagon building, according to three law enforcement sources. The Pentagon Force Protection Agency announced just before 12:15 p.m. is no longer under lockdown, the Pentagon Force Protection Agency announced a few hours after a shooting incident at the Metro Bus platform outside of the. "We request that everyone stay away from the Metro rail entrance and bus platform area," it said on Twitter. defense official said, but were at the White House for a regularly scheduled meeting.Ībout an hour after the Pentagon Force Protection Agency announced the lockdown, citing "an incident at the Pentagon Transit Center," the agency said the "scene of the incident is secure" but remains an active crime scene. Warnings sounded on intercoms throughout the facility telling all those inside to remain indoors "due to police activity outside."Īustin and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General Mark Milley were not at the Pentagon during the time of the incident, a U.S. Arlington County first responders encountered "multiple patients," the fire department said. Few details about the episode were available after the Pentagon was placed on lockdown following what a spokesperson called a shooting event. The Pentagon was placed on lockdown Tuesday morning after the incident at the Pentagon Transit Center involving a stabbing and a shooting, according to a U.S. The lockdown at the US Pentagon was lifted just before 12:15 pm after the US Defense Department complex ordered all personnel to remain indoors in the face of an active shooter who fired. ![]() to avoid the area, and the Arlington County Fire Department said on Twitter its units were "responding to a reported active violence incident" near the Pentagon's Metro stop. The Pentagon Force Protection Agency asked members of the public just after 11 a.m. "This fallen officer died in the line of duty, helping protect the tens of thousands of people who work in - and who visit - the Pentagon on a daily basis." ![]() ![]() Law enforcement sources said the suspect may have gotten on a Metro train headed toward Maryland, WTTG reported. "On behalf of everyone working at the Pentagon, and across the Department of Defense, I extend my deepest sympathies to the family, loved ones and colleagues of the Pentagon Force Protection Officer who died as a result of injuries he received this morning," Austin said in a statement. The Pentagon went into lockdown immediately after the gunfire erupted, but the restrictions were lifted shortly after noon once police determined the suspect had left the area. ![]()
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