Security guards at Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland (JBSA) exchanged gunfire with multiple active shooters at a main gate early Saturday morning, a spokesperson for the base said.
San Antonio law enforcement has responded and is on the scene outside the gate at the Texas military facility, where multiple shooters had fired on the premises on two different occasions.
“It was an off-base shooting from a passing vehicle that fired shots towards the gate, prompting our security forces to respond,” base spokesperson Stefanie Antosh said in a statement. “There is no threat to the installation. We had no injuries, no fatalities.”
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According to JBSA officials, a suspect in a dark sedan was passing by the main entry gate of the training facility on Medina Base Road when they began shooting towards the gate around 4:30 a.m. The suspect attempted to shoot again, which prompted the service member to pull out their gun and return fire, officials said.
The sedan then left the scene. It isn’t believed that any arrests were made and JBSA said no injuries were reported.
JBSA officials are calling this an “off-base shooting incident” since it occurred near the main entry gate of the training annex, about three miles from Lackland Air Force Base.
Military officials say there was no active threat to the facility, despite earlier categorizing the suspect as an “active shooter.” It isn’t believed as of now that the suspect had military connections, according to a press release from JBSA.
The gate to the training annex was initially closed and traffic redirected to an entry point north on Ray Ellison Boulevard. As of 10 a.m. Saturday, the annex gate had been reopened and normal operations resumed.
The motive for the shooting is not known and no details about the suspects were released.
