Shots Fired At National Security Agency Headquarters In Us: Reports

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Logo of National Security Agency (Reuters photo)

 

 

A shooting erupted when a vehicle tried to ram an entrance gate to the US National Security Agency outside Washington, media reports said on Monday.

There were conflicting reports of up to two casualties.

Video imagery showed a crash-damaged police vehicle and a civilian vehicle outside a main gate of the super-secure headquarters of the NSA, the US intelligence agency that conducts electronic surveillance worldwide.

CNN reported that police in Anne Arundel, Maryland said one person was killed and another injured in the incident, but provided no other information.

Other reports said two people were injured in the incident.

There was no immediate comment from the NSA or the Pentagon.

 

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Man shot dead at Fort Meade after trying to ram NSA gate

By Ashley Fantz and Evan Perez, CNN

 

Updated 11:09 AM ET, Mon March 30, 2015

 

 

 

 

   

 

 

Police investigating incident at NSA 02:53

Story highlights

• Two men tried to ram the main gate to enter the headquarters of the National Security Agency at Fort Meade
• One man was shot dead, and another was wounded, an official tells CNN

(CNN)Two men tried to ram the main gate to enter the headquarters of the National Security Agency at Fort Meade, Maryland on Monday, according to a federal law enforcement official briefed on the investigation. An NSA police officer shot one of the men dead and seriously injured the second.

Aerial shots show two vehicles at an intersection that appear to be damaged.

The incident took place near one of the gates to the complex, far from the main buildings.

 

This is the second security incident this month involving the NSA. At the beginning of March, a former state correctional officer was arrested, accused in a string of Maryland shootings, including one at Fort Meade. Gunshots struck a building near the NSA office, according to a police report.

Officers stopped Hong Young, 35, of Beltsville, Maryland, and recognized his vehicle as matching authorities' description of a car seen in surveillance footage near some of the other shootings. A gun in the car matched evidence found at the shootings, and Young was arrested, authorities said.

Police said earlier this month that there were no links to terrorism in the case, and no motive has been determined. No one was killed in the five shooting incidents.

In addition to the headquarters of the NSA, Fort Meade is home to 95 units from all branches of the armed forces and offices that report to several Defense Department agencies, according to the U.S. Army, which operates the base.

About 11,000 military employees and 29,000 civilians work there, according to the Army.

Some 6,000 people also live on the base, which began operations in 1917 as a garrison for World War I draftees, the Army said.