Associated Press
FREDERICK, Md. (AP) A Navy medic who shot and wounded two U.S. sailors before he was killed by police on a nearby Army base was assigned to a Naval medical research center in Maryland for nearly two years and had spent time in Bremerton, according to his service record.
Fantahun Girma Woldesenbet, 38, and the two men he shot were all assigned to Fort Detrick in Frederick, authorities said after Tuesday s shootings.
Woldesenbet was stationed in Bremerton at the Navy Medicine Readiness and Training Command between July 2015 and May 2018, according to Naval Hospital Bremerton Spokesman Douglas Stutz.
“We send our deepest condolences to all affected by this terrible act of violence and will continue to support the investigation,” Stutz said.
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Authorities haven’t disclosed a possible motive for the shooting.
“We’re still trying to sort through stacks of paper . to figure out exactly what the motive would be,” Frederick Police Lt. Andrew Alcorn said Tuesday.
Woldesenbet worked as a lab technician in the Naval Medical Research Center’s Biological Defense Research Directorate at Fort Detrick, Navy Cmdr. Denver Applehans, a spokesman for the Navy’s Bureau of Medicine and Surgery, said Wednesday. The Naval Medical Research Center’s headquarters are in Silver Spring, Maryland.
Woldesenbet’s service record says he enlisted in September 2012 and reported to his most recent position in August 2019. In between, he served at military facilities in San Antonio, Texas; Camp Lejeune in North Carolina; Corpus Christi, Texas; Bremerton, Washington; and Portsmouth, Virginia.