Shooting and Car Crash incident at NSA Headquarters

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On Wednesday, 3 men were taken to the custody when they tried to drive onto the campus of National Security Agency at Fort Meade, Maryland. The officials have indicated that they didn’t find any connection of the incident to terrorism and there isn’t any ongoing safety or security threat. The special agent in charge of the FBI Baltimore Division, Gordon Johnson said that the men tried to drive through the Canine Road gate shortly before 7 a.m. without authorization. A number of weapons were fired in the course of the episode, but initial reports didn’t mention that the car crashed and anyone had been shot. The crash incident injured driver and he was taken to a nearby hospital, but the other 2 men were taken into custody by the FBI.

The officials said that one police officer and an observer were also injured in the incident, but their injuries weren’t serious. The spokesman for NSA, Johnson and Tommy Groves said that terrorism was ruled out as a motive during initial investigations. They refused to rule out any other potential cause, including whether the driver entered the campus by mistake. The Cyber Command of the military is also located at the base, but Johnson didn’t mention who fired the shots. They might be the occupants of the car or security personnel and the FBI has started its investigation. He said that NSA police responded appropriately to the unauthorized attempt of the car entering the campus. The U.S President Trump also got a briefing about the incident.