In this 2006 photo, members of Alpha Company of the 244th Quartermasters battalion march to the physical fitness track at the Fort Lee Army post near Richmond, Va.(Photo: Steve Helber / Associated Press)
The U.S. Army says a shooter reported earlier Monday morning at its Fort Lee post near Richmond, Va., was a soldier who apparently shot herself and was taken to a local hospital.
On its Facebook page, Fort Lee said first-responders reacting to a report of a female soldier with a gun inside the Combined Arms Support Command (CASCOM) headquarters at about 9 a.m. found a soldier who had apparently turned the weapon on herself and fired one shot, wounding herself.
The Army said the soldier was transported to Virginia Commonwealth University Medical Center in Richmond. Her condition was not immediately known. Special agents from the U.S. Army Criminal Investigation Command were investigating the incident, the Army said in a release on its Facebook page. "Fort Lee officials take this incident very seriously and are fully cooperating with the investigation," the statement said.
The post was put on lockdown briefly Monday after reports of an "active shooter incident" at the CASCOM building just after 9:30 a.m. The post's Twitter and Facebook accounts instructed all personnel to "enact active shooter protocols immediately."
The Army sent an "all clear" message about 20 minutes later.
The lockdown came just four days after the Army announced the installation of a new mass warning and emergency notification system, to be activated within weeks. Called "Fort Lee Alert," it is intended to "greatly increase the installation's ability to disseminate important and, possibly, life-saving information," James Livingston, an army operations specialist, told the Fort Lee Traveller, the installation's command-authorized newspaper.
The alert system is being fielded at Fort Lee as part of the Army's Emergency Management Modernization Program, the paper said.
CASCOM is a training and education center located on the post about 20 miles south of Richmond.
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