This morning, a shooting was reported at Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland.
Security guards were shot at, not once, but twice.
The first shots rang out around 2:15 AM. Then, again, just before 5 AM, a car stopped outside the gate of the military base and shot at the security guards.
Security exchanged fire with the shooters. Multiple shooters were reported from the vehicle, but it is unclear how many, and there were no injuries.
Here’s what we know:
Security Forces with the U.S. Air Force at Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland in Texas, were forced to Return Fire this morning against several Armed Individuals who Opened Fire on the Main Gate to the JBSA-Chapman Training Annex around roughly 4:30am. pic.twitter.com/VdOxZDkdRv
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Security forces at Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland were involved in a shooting early Saturday near the main gate outside the JBSA-Chapman Training Annex, officials say.
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San Antonio Express News reported:
Security guards at the entrance to a training annex at Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland twice came under fire early Saturday morning from unknown assailants. The second ambush sparked a brief gun battle. No injuries were reported.
The first attack occurred around 2:15 a.m., when Air Force Security Forces personnel at the entrance gate of the Chapman Training Annex on the Southwest Side heard gunshots and the sound of bullets whistling past them, the San Antonio Police Department said.
The guards called for back-up, and shortly before 5 a.m., a sedan stopped just east of the gate at Ray Ellison Boulevard and Medina Base Road. “For a second time, shots were fired at the Air Force Security personnel,” said Sgt. Washington Moscoso, an SAPD spokesman.
This time, the Air Force guards returned fire at the sedan with their service weapons, typically 9mm handguns. No one was injured in the exchange of gunfire, said JBSA spokeswoman Stefanie Antosh. It wasn’t known how many rounds were fired.
Antosh said there was more than one shooter in the sedan but the exact number was unknown, as was the attackers’ motive. No details of the car’s make, model or color were released.
AP confirmed:
U.S. Air Force security guards exchanged gunfire with someone who opened fire at an entrance to Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland early Saturday, according to a spokesperson for the base.
No injuries were reported after the guards returned fire at a passing vehicle at a base entrance around 4:30 a.m., public affairs chief Stefanie Antosh told the San Antonio Express-News.
It was not known how many rounds were fired, how many shooters there were, or what their motive was, Antosh said.
“We don’t know what, if anything, started it,” Antosh said. “But it wasn’t an active threat to the installation, and there is no active threat to the installation.”
ADVERTISEMENTAntosh did not immediately return messages from The Associated Press for more information.
The entrance was closed for several hours after the shooting, but the base was not locked down, according to Antosh.
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