SAN DIEGO (AP) — A guard shot and killed a person wielding a knife Friday at the entrance gate to the Marine Corps Recruit Depot in San Diego, authorities said.
The shooting occurred at around noon, San Diego police said.
A car tried to enter the depot through the Gate 5 checkpoint and guards warned it to stop, according to a statement from the depot cited by KGTV-TV.
The driver then got out and approached with a knife “and hostile intent,” the statement said.
“After several warnings the individual was shot by base personnel” and died at the scene, the statement said.
Other details weren’t immediately released.
Since the shooting took place on federal property, the Naval Criminal Investigative Service is handling the investigation.
The depot is near San Diego International Airport. Gate 5 is used for visitors. It has security kiosks under a metal awning.
KSWB-TV reported that an SUV with open doors could be seen in one of the visitor lanes, and a body covered by a tarp lay a short distance away under the gate’s awning.
The Marine Recruit Depot, which trains recruits mainly from west of the Mississippi River, handles tens of thousands of recruits each year. The depot is celebrating its 100th anniversary this year.
No injuries were reported in the incident.
Brooke Army Medical Center is about an hour-and-a-half from Uvalde, where the shooting took place.
The South Carolina military base has molded recruits into Marines for more than a century.
For years the service has been losing Marines to the Army National Guard.
This was the inaugural exercise for the new Marine littoral regiment.
While cyber is essential to many areas of DoD operations, it is not its main function.
Two Military Spouse of the Year winners talk about acceptance, belonging, and advocating for change on this episode of The Spouse Angle podcast.
Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin calls on the cadets to uphold America's values.
Harold Billow, 99, the last known survivor of a World War II POW massacre during the Battle of the Bulge, will be laid to rest Thursday.
U.S. and South Korean military leaders spoke after the joint missile demonstration.
The launches were North Korea’s 17th round of missile firings this year.
The sweeping bill could be one of the most expensive and most impactful veterans policy measures approved by Congress in years.
This week will be a decisive one for Ukraine’s prospects of holding the region — and Russia’s chances of seizing it.
The commission is charged with renaming bases whose names currently honor Confederate leaders.
Experts say leaking the draft opinion likely wasn’t a crime, and the former Army colonel's investigative tools are limited.
Load More