Police officer dead after Pentagon lockdown amid gunfire outside
The Metro says: The Pentagon was placed on lockdown on Tuesday morning after multiple shots were fired outside.
A police officer died after gunfire erupted near a platform at a Metro station close to the US defense facility, three law enforcement sources told CNN on Tuesday afternoon. The circumstances around the shooting and death were not immediately clear.
In an announcement earlier, the Pentagon said the building was on lockdown due to ‘police activity’.
‘Right now, we’ve just confirmed that the Pentagon is on lockdown,’ Pentagon Force Protection Agency spokesman Chris Layman said. ‘There is an incident at the Pentagon transit center.’
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