Pentagon on lockdown after shots fired near Metro station
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The Pentagon was on lockdown Tuesday morning after shots were fired near a platform by the facility’s Metro station, according to NBC Washington.
An announcement from the Pentagon said the facility was on lockdown due to “police activity.”
About an hour after tweeting there was an “incident at the Pentagon Transit Center,” the Pentagon Force Protection Agency tweeted that the scene was “secure.”
“It is still an active crime scene. We request that everyone stay away from the Metro rail entrance and bus platform area,” the agency said.
An Associated Press reporter near the building heard multiple gunshots. Another AP journalist heard police yelling “shooter,” the news agency reported.
The transit center is just steps from the Pentagon.
Sherri Ly with the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority told NBC News that Metrobuses were being diverted from the transit hub, and trains were bypassing the Pentagon Transit Center, “due to an active police investigation on the Pentagon Reservation.”
Arlington Fire & EMS said it was responding to a “reported active violence incident in the area of the pentagon metro.
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