Marine Base Shooting: 3 Killed in Virginia, A Marine killed two of
his colleagues in a shooting at a base in northern Virginia before
killing himself on Thursday.
Authorities were called to the scene at Marine Corps Base Quantico around 10:30 pm Thursday, where they found one Marine dead at a barracks, base commander Col David W. Maxwell told reporters.
Authorities later found a second victim dead, along with the body of the suspected gunman, who died of self-inflicted gunshot wound.
A base spokesman initially described the situation as a standoff. Maxwell said later in the morning that there was no standoff. Base spokesman Lt Agustin Solivan later clarified that after the first shooting, police had the shooter “isolated” in a barracks dorm room at the base’s Officer Candidates School.
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