Friday, December 6, 2019

4 dead in NAS Pensacola shooting

NAVAL AIR STATION PENSACOLA, Fla. - Four people are dead, including the shooter, at Naval Air Station Pensacola. Eleven others were injured and sent to Baptist Hospital and Sacred Heart Hospital. The base is on lockdown. The shooting occurred before 7 a.m. CST at Building 633. The base has 16,000 military and 7,400 civilians and is a key Navy technical training base. It's also home of the Blue Angels flight demonstration team, Barrancas National Cemetery, and the National Naval Aviation Museum. (Sources: multiple, including ABC News, AP via the Ledger, USAToday, 12/06/19) Updated with new information from a news conference that a fourth person died.