Gunman among four killed in Naval base spree

A GUNMAN opened fire in a classroom building at a US Naval Air Station in an attack that left four people dead, including the assailant, and multiple people wounded.

The shooting in Pensacola, Florida, the second at a US Navy base this week, prompted a massive law enforcement response and a lockdown at the base.

Eleven people were shot all together, including two sheriff’s deputies who were the first to respond, one of whom killed the gunman, Escambia County Sheriff David Morgan said.

One of the deputies was shot in the arm and the other in the knee, and both were expected to recover, he said. Mr Morgan would not say if the gunman belonged to the military and said he did not want to speculate on whether the shooting was terrorism-related.