SAN ANTONIO - An active shooting near Joint Base San Antonio (JBSA) - Lackland led security officials to return fire.JBSA officials announced that the incident
SAN ANTONIO - An active shooting near Joint Base San Antonio - Lackland led security officials to return fire.
JBSA officials announced that the incident took place at around 4:30 on Saturday morning at the main gate of theA preliminary report from the San Antonio Police Department said that around 2:00 a.m., unknown suspects fired several rounds at the Air Force Security personnel stationed at the gate.. The guards on duty told police that they could hear rounds being fired, as well as the bullets flying past them.Just after 5:00 a.m., police say a sedan stopped on Median Base Road, east of the entrance gate, and rounds were fired at the Air Forse Personnel a second time.
With the additional personnel present, multiple Air Force personnel returned fire toward the suspect vehicle.The main gate was closed pending an investigation of the shooting but has since reopened.JBSA also confirmed that although the off-base shooting did prompt a response from security personnel, the shooting was not a threat to the base.This story is developing, we’ll update this story when we have more information.
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