Navy Hospital Corpsman, 38, Shoots Two Sailors at Maryland Business Park
Valerie Edwards, Daily Mail, April 6, 2021
A Navy hospital corpsman shot two sailors at a business park in Maryland before breaching a gate at the nearby Fort Detrick Army base where he was killed by military personnel, authorities said.
Married, father-of-two Fantahun Girma Woldesenbet, 38, who had a rank of E-4, or petty officer third class, entered a business at the Riverside Tech Park, which is connected to the Fort Detrick base, causing people inside to flee, Frederick Police Chief Jason Lando said.
Fantahun Woldesenbet
After the shooting, the medic drove about 10 minutes to Fort Detrick, where he was shot by base personnel, Lando said at a news conference.
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Members of the Frederick Police Department Special Response Team prepare to enter Fort Detrick. (AP)
WASHINGTON: A US Navy medic shot and critically injured two people at an industrial park in the state of Maryland, before heading to a nearby military base, where he was killed by the personnel there, authorities said.
Frederick Police Chief Jason Lando told a news briefing that police responded to a shooting incident at around 8:20am on Tuesday at Riverside Tech Park, where the 38-year-old male suspect opened fire, striking two men and causing others to flee, reports Xinhua news agency.
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The two people who were shot at the business park were flown to the University of Maryland Shock Trauma Center in Baltimore, Lando said.
The gunman drove through a gate at an entrance to the base before military personnel confronted him on a road inside, said Fort Detrick spokeswoman Lanessa Hill.
“It wasn’t that long after he came through the gate that the shooter was stopped, Hill said. “Not even a quarter of a mile.” She said Frederick police had given base officials advance notice, so we knew that he was out there.”
Fort Detrick is home to the military’s flagship biological defense laboratory and several federal civilian biodefense labs. About 10,000 military personnel and civilians work on the base, which encompasses about 1,300 acres (526 hectares) in the city of Frederick.
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An investigation into the suspect s possible motive was underway. The shooting occurred Tuesday morning inside a military “overflow area” at Riverside Tech Park, an Army general said at a news conference.
The gunman drove through a gate at an entrance to the base before military personnel confronted him on a road inside, said Fort Detrick spokeswoman Lanessa Hill.
“It wasn’t that long after he came through the gate that the shooter was stopped, Hill said. “Not even a quarter of a mile.” She said Frederick police had given base officials advance notice, so we knew that he was out there.”