WICHITA FALLS, Texas -- An airman in training at Sheppard Air Force Base was in military custody Monday after toting a shotgun outside a dormitory.
George Woodward, a spokesman for base, said no shots were fired and nobody was hurt during the incident Sunday night.
Base security forces received a call shortly after 9 p.m. about a man with a weapon outside a barracks that houses male and female personnel, he said. Woodward said security confronted the airman and he dropped the shotgun.
Woodward declined to release the airman’s identity or say why he armed himself. However, he said investigators determined that there was no overall threat to base security, and the airman was to receive “psychological counseling and help.”
The base was shut down shortly after the incident, but Woodward said it reopened shortly before midnight and there was no impact on the training.
Sheppard is home to the 82nd Training Wing and the 80th Flying Training Wing.
Wichita Falls is about 130 miles northwest of Dallas.
———
On the Net:
http://www.sheppard.af.mil
RSS
Mobile
Daily Emails
Twitter
Facebook
