BREAKING NEWS: Shooting at Navy yard in Southeast Washington D.C.

Via Navy.Mil:

WASHINGTON (NNS) — Several people were injured and there are reports of fatalities in a shooting at the Washington Navy Yard Sept. 16.

An active shooter was reported inside the Naval Sea Systems Command Headquarters building (Bldg. 197) on the Washington Navy Yard at 8:20 a.m. (Eastern Time).

Emergency personnel remain on scene and a “shelter in place” order has been issued for Navy Yard personnel.

This release will be updated as new information is confirmed

From Twitter:

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Update: CBS Washington has a live blog up and running. From the blog:

Update #2:

Video from CBS:

Update #3:

Via Defense One:

Breaking shooter description: Black male w/ dark complexion, approximately 5’10” to 6 feet tall, 170 pound with a black shirt and black hat.

There are conflicting report of more than one shooter. Stay tuned, as this sort of information does change rapidly. Updated! See below…

Update #4:

And already the neocon right starts the stupidity:

Hmph, maybe Ed Brayton has a point. I’ll just call her the stupid bitch daygo of the day.

Update #5:

Speaking of Stupidity:

Via BuzzFeed:

Translation of Russian tweet:

Translated from Russian by Bing Translator
New shooting NAVY HQ in Washington-the lone shooter and 7 corpses. No one is surprised. Visual Confirmation “u.s. exceptionalism”

Nice. Communists gloating over American deaths. 😡

Update #6:

Some interesting photos from the scene at BuzzFeed.

Update #7:

Fox News is now reporting that one shooter is now dead. Updated! See Below!

Update #8:

Smoke Break! Be right back!

Update #9:

I’m back! Much better! *cough* *cough* 😀

Update #10:

Eyewitness account via NBCNews.com:

WASHINGTON — Two workers at the Washington Navy Yard who came face to face with the gunman in a dimly lit hallway recounted Monday how he silently raised his rifle and opened fire on them.

Don Andres, a legislative aide to Rep. Steven Horsford, D-Nev., describes to MSNBC’s Chris Jansing the scene near the Washington Navy Yard, where 12 were wounded and at least four people died after a shooting at the headquarters of the Naval Sea Systems Command.

“We’re lucky he was far enough away he was a bad shot,” said Terrie Durham, a civilian employee in the Office of Naval Sea Systems Command.

Durham and co-worker Todd Brundivge were in their office Monday morning when a fire alarm went off, followed by an announcement of an emergency and orders to leave the building.

“I was on the phone and someone came up to my desk and said, ‘This is not a drill. Someone had just been shot. There are shots in the building,'” Brundivge said.

“So I hung up the phone and started to try to get people out of the building.

Update #11Fox News is now reporting that one shooting is now dead, and that Navy police and DC police are looking for two other shooters. Terrorism, at this time, is not suspected; that this is an isolated incident. I will refrain from my commentary in a news post. Hopefully, the police and Navy Police find out is going on and the motive for this. My thoughts and prayers to victims and deceased and their families. 🙁

Oh, BTW, when I refer to commentary; I am referring to motive. Fox News is pushing the terrorism motive hard. I won’t do that. It is too soon to speculate and I won’t do that here. Anything else, is fair game.

Update #12Some interesting news via ABC News:

…and here is some weapons grade stupidity, props to Hotair.com for finding this one.

Here’s the video:

Wow… Just wow…. 🙄

Update #13Still no word on motive. One shooter has been ID’ed and they are still looking for a second shooter. I will take this off sticky and move on.

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