NAVY MEDIC SHOOTS 2 SAILORS; IS KILLED ON MD. BASE
A Navy medic shot and wounded two U.S. sailors at a military facility Tuesday, then fled to a nearby Army base where security forces shot and killed him, police and Navy officials said.
Authorities said they had yet to determine what drove 38-year-old Fantahun Girma Woldesenbet to open fire at the office park in Frederick, Md.
“We’re still trying to sort through stacks of paper to figure out exactly what the moBut tive would be,” said Frederick police Lt. Andrew Alcorn.
Woldesenbet shot two people with a rifle inside a Navy facility at the Riverside Tech Park on Tuesday morning, causing people inside to flee, said Frederick police Chief Jason Lando.
Woldesenbet, a Navy medic assigned to Fort Detrick who lived in town, then drove to the base, where gate guards who had been given advance notice told him to pull over for a search, said Brig. Gen. Michael J. Talley. Woldesenbet immediately sped off, making it about a half-mile into the installation before he was stopped at a parking lot by the base’s police force. When he pulled out a weapon, the police shot and kill him, Talley said.
The two sailors, who Talley said were assigned to Fort Detrick, were airlifted to a hospital. One of the victims was in critical condition and the other is expected to be released from the hospital today, Lando said.
Talley said investigators will determine as much as they can, including why the suspect went back to the base.
“(I) don’t know his mental status at the time, and we’re certainly going to find all that out,” he said.
The brigadier general said the facility where the shooting took place was not under his command. He declined to identify the facility more specifically or describe the work that was done there.