U.S. Air Force security guards exchanged gunfire with someone who opened fire at an entrance to Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland on Saturday morning.
No injuries were reported after guardsmen returned fire on a vehicle passing through the entrance to the Texas base around 4:30 a.m.
Spokeswoman Stefanie Antosh told the San Antonio Express-News It was not clear how many rounds were fired, how many shooters there were or their motive.
Antosh told the outlet: ‘We don’t know what started it, if anything, but it was not an active threat to the installation and there is no active threat to the installation.
Due to the incident, the entrance had to remain closed for several hours after the shooting, but the base was not locked down.
No injuries were reported after guardsmen returned fire on a vehicle passing through the entrance to the Texas base, seen here, around 4:30 a.m.
San Antonio police also responded to the base in response to the shooting and are said to have helped collect evidence, the outlet reported.
In addition to Lackland, Joint Base San Antonio includes Randolph Air Force Base, Fort Sam Houston and the Camp Bullis training range.
Lackland is home to more than 24,000 active duty service members and 10,000 Department of Defense civilians, according to the base’s website.
Includes the 37th Training Wing; the 149th Fighter Wing; the 59th Medical Wing; the Air Force Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance Agency; the 24th Air Force Wing; the 67th Network Warfare Wing; the Cryptologic Systems Group; the National Security Agency; and 70 associated units.
Airman Aaron Bushnell, who committed suicide by setting himself on fire outside the Israeli embassy in Washington DC earlier this year, had previously worked at the base.
He had worked in the service as a cyber defence operations specialist, having joined in May 2020.
The US Air Force officer shouted “Free Palestine” while standing outside the Israeli Embassy in what he described as an “extreme act of protest”.
