A gunman coolly drew a weapon from his pocket and opened fire at the teeming subway entrance to the Pentagon complex Thursday evening, wounding two police officers before being shot and critically wounded, officials said.The suspect is in critical condition. We may never know what the motivation was.
Authorities said all three were taken to a hospital. Richard Keevill, chief of Pentagon police, said the two officers suffered grazing wounds that were not life-threatening.
The suspect, identified as 36-year old John Patrick Bedell, allegedly walked up to a security checkpoint at the Pentagon in an apparent attempt to get inside the Defense Department headquarters, at about 6:40 p.m. "He just reached in his pocket, pulled out a gun and started shooting," Keevill said. "He walked up very cool. He had no real emotion on his face." The Pentagon officers returned fire with semiautomatic weapons.
Thursday, March 04, 2010
Shooting at the Pentagon
I'm not sure what set this off:
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It was a bit disappointing to know that such incident happened just outside the Pentagon Metro Station office to think that the Pentagon is one of the most influential and well-known defense building in the whole world.
BTW, the shooting at the pentagon just happened a night ago and is already a trending topic on Twitter. Woot!
We'll just hope and pray that this will never happen again.
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