FLORIDA – A shooting in a classroom building at a Florida naval base on Friday morning left four people dead, including the gunman, and seven others injured.
News of the shooting stunned the US Navy, already reeling from another fatal shooting at a base only two days before.
Jason Bortz, a spokesman for Naval Air Station Pensacola, confirmed to the Pensacola News Journal that an active shooter was reported just before 7 a.m. CT (8 a.m. ET).
The Escambia County Sheriff’s Office wrote on Facebook at 7:48 a.m.that the shooting was over and that the shooter had been confirmed dead.
The US Navy initially said two people were killed in the shooting.
The Escambia County Sheriff’s Office later said four people total had died: Three were killed at the base, and one died at a local hospital.
Seven others, including two responding officers, were injured. One officer was shot in the arm, and the other was shot in the knee and was in surgery on Friday morning.
