Friday, March 22, 2013

Shooting At U.S. Marine Base Kills Three



Marine Kills Two At Quantico Base, Takes Own Life -- Reuters

(Reuters) - A Marine shot dead two fellow service members at a base in Quantico, Virginia, then killed himself, the Marines said on Friday.

The shootings took place late on Thursday near the officer candidate school at the Marine Corps base in Quantico, and all three people who died were active-duty Marines, base commander Colonel David Maxwell said.

"The shooter, an active-duty Marine, was pronounced dead of a self-inflicted gunshot wound by law enforcement at the scene," he told a news conference carried by local media.

Maxwell gave no motive for the shooting and an investigation is under way. The two slain Marines, a man and a woman, were permanent personnel assigned to the officers school, as was the shooter, he said.

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More News On Today's Shooting At Quantico Base

Three Marines die in shootings at Quantico -- Washington Post
3 Marines, including gunman, dead in shooting at Marine Base Quantico -- FOX News
Marine at Quantico, Va., base fatally shoots 2 colleagues before killing self -- Washington Post/AP
Three Dead, Including Suspect, in Marine-Base Shooting -- Wall Street Journal
Marine Kills 2 People at Virginia Base -- New York Times
US Marine kills two colleagues at Quantico base -- NBC
'A long night' at Quantico Marine base: 3 dead in shooting -- CNN
Murder-suicide at Quantico Marine base latest signal to Pentagon of troubles -- Christian Science Monitor

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