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Multiple injured in shooting at Hawaii’s Pearl Harbor base
LOS ANGELES, Dec 5, 2019 (BSS/AFP) – At least three people were injured,
two of them critically, when a gunman opened fire at the Pearl Harbor Naval
Shipyard in Hawaii before taking his own life, local news reports said
Wednesday.
A spokesman for the US base would only say that security forces had
responded to reports of a shooting at around 2:30 pm local time and that the
base was on lockdown for several hours.
One witness told local media he was sitting at his computer when he heard
shots fired and rushed to the window where he saw three victims on the
ground.
The witness, who did not want to be identified, said he then saw the
gunman who was wearing what appeared to be a navy or sailor’s uniform shoot
himself in the head.
Hawaii News Now said civilians were among the gunshot victims.
The shooting reportedly took place near the south entrance of the
sprawling base located on the southern shore of Oahu.
The base hosts both the Navy and Air Force.
The shooting on Wednesday took place three days before the 78th
anniversary of the 1941 Japanese surprise attack on Pearl Harbor that left
2,403 US service members dead.
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