Officer dead, suspect killed in violence outside Pentagon

By LOLITA C. BALDOR and SAGAR MEGHANI

WASHINGTON (AP) — An serviceman died aft being stabbed Tuesday during a burst of unit astatine a transit presumption extracurricular the Pentagon, and a fishy was changeable by instrumentality enforcement and died astatine the scene, officials said.

The Pentagon, the office of the U.S. military, was temporarily placed connected lockdown aft gunshots were fired Tuesday greeting adjacent the entranceway of the building, A Pentagon constabulary serviceman who was stabbed aboriginal died, according to officials who were not authorized to sermon the substance and spoke to The Associated Press connected information of anonymity.

More details astir the unit were expected astatine a Pentagon quality conference. The transportation betwixt the shooting and the stabbing of the serviceman was not instantly clear. The authorities did not instantly supply details oregon the series of events.

The incidental occurred connected a Metro autobus level that is portion of the Pentagon Transit Center and conscionable steps from the Pentagon, according to the Pentagon Protection Force Protection Agency. The installation is conscionable steps from the Pentagon building, which is successful Arlington County, Virginia, conscionable crossed the Potomac River from Washington, D.C.

An Associated Press newsman adjacent the gathering heard aggregate gunshots, past a pause, past astatine slightest 1 further shot. Another AP writer heard constabulary yelling “shooter.”

A Pentagon announcement said the installation was connected lockdown owed to “police activity.” The bureau liable for information astatine the building, the Pentagon Force Protection Agency, tweeted soon earlier noon that the country of the incidental was secure. The lockdown was lifted but for the country astir the transgression scene.

Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin and Gen. Mark Milley, president of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, were astatine the White House gathering with President Joe Biden, astatine the clip of the shooting.

In 2010, 2 officers with the Pentagon Force Protection Agency were wounded erstwhile a gunman approached them astatine a information screening area. The officers, who survived, returned fire, fatally wounding the gunman, identified arsenic John Patrick Bedell.

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Associated Press writers Michael Balsamo, Eric Tucker and Colleen Long contributed to this report.