U.S. Air Drive safety guards exchanged gunfire with somebody who twice opened fireplace on an entrance to Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland early Saturday, in accordance with a spokesperson for the bottom.
“It was an off-base capturing from a passing car that fired pictures in the direction of the gate, prompting our safety forces to reply,” base spokesperson Stefanie Antosh mentioned in a press release. “There isn’t any menace to the set up. We had no accidents, no fatalities.”
Antosh mentioned the capturing was being investigated by San Antonio police, who mentioned in a launch that the primary capturing occurred about 2:15 a.m.
“The safety personnel acknowledged they heard a number of pictures fired in addition to the fired rounds go previous them,” Sgt. Washington Moscoso mentioned within the launch. “After this incident, the safety personnel added extra armed guards as a precaution.”
A car later stopped close to the identical entrance shortly after 4:30 a.m., Moscoso mentioned.
“For a second time, pictures had been fired on the Air Drive safety personnel, nevertheless, with the extra safety personnel current, a number of Air Drive personnel returned fireplace towards the suspect car,” Moscoso mentioned.
The car then fled. No accidents had been reported and the shootings remained below investigation, Moscoso mentioned.
It was not identified what number of rounds had been fired, what number of shooters there have been, or what their motive was, in accordance with Antosh.
The doorway was closed for a number of hours after the capturing earlier than reopening about 9:30 a.m., however the base was not locked down, in accordance with Antosh.
Along with Lackland, Joint Base San Antonio contains Randolph Air Drive Base and the Military’s Fort Sam Houston and the Camp Bulllis coaching camp.
Lackland is house to greater than 24,000 lively responsibility members and 10,000 Division of Protection civilians, in accordance with the base website. It contains the thirty seventh Coaching Wing; 149th Fighter Wing; 59th Medical Wing; the Air Drive Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance Company; twenty fourth Air Drive Wing, 67th Community Warfare Wing; the Cryptologic Techniques Group; the Nationwide Safety Company; and 70 related items.
