16 September 2013 (16:54 UTC-07 Tango)/11 Dhu ‘l-Qa’da 1434/25 Shahrivar 1391/12 Xin-You (8th month) 4711
A USN Captain, Mark Vandroff, was interviewed by a local Washington DC NBC news affiliate. He stated that he and his coworkers barricaded themselves in a conference room inside Building 197, Navy Sea Systems Command (NSSC). He said bullets came through the walls.
This does not sound like a shotgun, which is what law enforcement claim the suspected shooter used. The latest reports say investigators are finding massive amounts of shotgun shells, and are concluding that the shooter primarily used a shotgun.
Police also say the shooter used the shotgun to kill armed personnel, then used their weapons to continue shooting.
Reports saying the former NSSC employee’s security clearance found with the dead suspected shooter is an anomaly. Officials say they don’t know how it ended up at the crime scene because it was turned in when the former employee left!
News out of Washington state says the suspected shooter suffered from PTSD, as a result of rescuing victims of the 11 September 2001 attacks on the World Trade Center in New York City.
A NBC network news reporter stated that officials are almost certain this was a Lone Gunman incident, despite many witnesses saying there was more than one shooter, and the fact that another black man was seen leaving the base with a “long gun”.
Washington DC police say they are going over public security camera video. Entire sections of the city are in lockdown, the police chief told residents of one neighborhood that they were to “shelter in place”. All this while the police continue to claim it was a Lone Gunman incident, and that the lone Gunman is dead. Police claim they must keep areas of the city in lockdown to facilitate their investigation, which is strange because the shootings took place on the U.S. Navy base, and the suspected ‘lone’ gunman was killed!
Todd Brundidge, an executive assistant with NSSC, said the gunman he saw was wearing a blue uniform.