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3 dead in shooting at Marine Base Quantico

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UPDATE (4:05 A.M.) - FALLS CHURCH, Va. (AP) -- Three people are dead at the Marine Corps Base in Quantico, Va. A base spokesman says early this morning authorities entered barracks where the suspect in a shooting death had barricaded himself. He was found dead of a self-inflicted gunshot wound and a second victim was found nearby. Authorities believe the suspect was a staff member at the officer candidate school at the base. The two others killed also were Marines.    

     

 

 

FALLS CHURCH, Va. (AP) - A base spokesman says one person is dead after a shooting at Marine Corps Base Quantico in Virginia and authorities are in a standoff with a suspect who's barricaded himself in barracks.

  Lt. Agustin Solivan says the shooting happened around 11 p.m. Thursday and authorities are in a standoff with the suspect that's gone into early Friday.

 

      Solivan says they believe the suspect is a staff member at the officer candidate school at the base.

 

      No information on the victim has been released.