StoopidFly: Gunfire in D.C.

Friday, May 26, 2006

Gunfire in D.C.

There have been reports of gunfire in the Rayburn building in the capitol area earlier today.

Capitol police were investigating "the sound of gunfire in the garage level of the Rayburn House Office Building," said an announcement on the internal Capitol voice alarm system.

Dozens of police officers, many of them armed with assault rifles, milled around ouside the entrance to the garage.

At the Capitol, police quickly closed all doors, stopping people from either entering the building. Tourists were herded into a first-floor chamber in the middle of the building. Other corridors on the House side of the building, where lawmakers had already left for the recess, were deserted.
The Capitol was re-opened within an hour.

UPDATE:
12:10pm Fox News channel is reporting that two women just came running out of the Rayburn House Office building minutes ago. They claim a man was hiding in the gym with a gun. The description they two women gave, was a white male about 5'10" and 175 lb.

12:21pm Fox News now reporting a woman was just taken out of the Rayburn building on a stretcher. This was apparantly anxiety related.

THE ALL CLEAR HAS BEEN GIVEN. APPARANTLY MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING. IT WAS NOT SHOTS FIRED, JUST NOISE FROM SOME CONSTRUCTION VEHICLES.

Michele Malkin has more.