Investigators have been tight-lipped about a pair of weekend ambushes on security personnel guarding the entrance to a training annex at Lackland AFB.
In a troubling turns of events over the weekend, Air Force security personnel guarding the entrance to a training annex at Joint Base San Antonio - Lackland twice came under fire in the dead of night. The assailants have not been identified, and authorities have made sometimes contradictory statements about what their aims and motives may have been. No one was injured.
. This time, the security personnel fired back. How many attackers were there? An Air Force spokeswoman, Stefanie 'Stevi' Antosh, said it was more than one, but she didn't provide a number. NBC News, quoting an unidentified source, said there was a single shooter, along with one other person in the sedan, and that neither individual appear to be affiliated with the military. Authorities provided no details of the car’s make, model or color.
officers found shell casings near where the sedan had stopped. That's all the evidence we know of. Who did this, and why? If the Air Force and the police know, they aren't saying. But they have ruled out certain explanations. Antosh said there's no indication the shootings were politically motivated or an act of terrorism. A few hours after the incident, she said there was 'a sense' the incident was gang-related.
spokeswoman, Capt. Michelle Ramos, said police did not have evidence of gang involvement. is investigating the incident as an “aggravated assault with deadly weapon.” What is the Chapman Training Annex? It's the home of Air Force special warfare training. Long known as the Medina Annex, it was renamed in 2020 for Air Force Master Sgt. John Chapman, a combat air controller who was killed in a battle in Afghanistan on March 4, 2002, and was posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor. Has this incident rattled the Air Force? 'Rattled' would be too strong a term.
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