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National cemetery with bomb-making material on him. he had bomb-making material in his backpack. apparently he had plans to vandalize the tombstones of soldiers who had served and died in iraq and afghanistan. and even though his random drive-by sniper-like shootings didn't kill or injure anybody, he ended up getting sentenced to serve 25 years in ichb pr.prison. that was the fall of 2010. three years later, september of 2013, it was a 33-year-old military contractor and former navy reservist who made his way onto the washington navy yard where he entered a building and then proceeded to go fr...

It took almost a year, but law enforcement officials eventually found the guy who was randomly shooting into various types of military buildings. he turned out to be a marine reservist himself. he was 22 years old at the time of his arrest. he was arrested at arlington national cemetery with bomb-making material on him. he had bomb-making material in his backpack. apparently he had plans to vandalize the tombstones of soldiers who had served and died in iraq and afghanistan. and even though his random drive-by sniper-like shootings didn't kill or injure anybody, he ended up getting sentenced t...

If that is in fact the case it would be just a troubling, troubling situation, especially for the individuals who work at that site. i was there in 2013 when police responded to shots fired in that area. and it was quite traumatic. so for this to be happening or the possibility of this happening just two years later, truly troubling. we do know as you see on your screen there, we're getting word that the washington navy yard is on lockdown. but this is all very fluid. this is all very new. it's all coming into us as we speak to you. so as we get more of course we'll speak to you. but again the...

Here. we really saw three factors in play. one was the memory of a 2013 shooting here where mentally ill military contractor gunned down 12 colleagues. and also this lead-up to the july fourth4th weekend and then the phone call that there were reports of shots fired here at the navy base. when that happened they treated this as the real thing today. there was a massive police presence here in southeast washington. and they also kicked into gear something called the national capital response squad. this say group that is sent into action when they believe that there is a credible terrorist thre...

People start running and witnesses think they can't tell the runners from the actual person that did the shooting. that happened in the navy yard, as you recall. the police were looking for several people that were sited. turned out to only be one shooter. this is very early in terms of trying to get accurate information of whether there's been a shooting how many shooters, what the situation is. >> what complicated things that time in 2013 when a military contractor killed 12 injuring dozens, was the fact that he had an active id and was allowed to be on that base legally. that further compli...