Escambia County Sheriff Chip Simmons said law enforcement did not find any signs of severe shooter and zero injuries at Naval Air Base (NAS) Pensacola despite calls regarding multiple gunshots. But they still wipe out the building from a wealth of attention. There is no details about what happened at the base.
Pensacola Police Station spokesperson Mike Wood confirmed to Fox News that a sub-installation of Nas Pensacola “no shooting took place” at Corry Station in Nas Pensacola.
A general view of Pensacola, a Naval Air Station in Florida. (Josh Blast/Getty Images)
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A previous statement from Nas Pensacola read, “Nas Pensacola Navy security forces and local law enforcement are actively responding to Corry Station.”
“Our security team is responding quickly and skillfully to our local law enforcement partners,” Col. Chandra Newman said in a statement from NAS Pensacola. “Our concern is always the safety and welfare of our service members and their families. The gates to the operating areas of NAS Pensacola and Corey stations are closed. As they become available, more information will be posted on the Aviation Bureau’s social media site.”
Nas Pensacola experienced a terrorist attack in December 2019 when Saudi Air Force 2nd and Mohammed Saeed Alshamrani Nakato shot and killed three sailors and injured eight. This can explain why today’s report elicits such a huge response from law enforcement.
The Royal Saudi Air Force, Mohammed Said Al-Shamrani, an airman accused of killing three people at a US naval base in Pensacola, Florida, can be seen in a photo of an undated military identification card released by the Federal Bureau of Investigation on December 7, 2019. (FBI/delivery via Reuters)
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General Bill Barr at the time said that Al-Shamrani was “motivated by jihadist ideology” citing an online post from the Saudi Arabian National. A senior DOJ official told Fox News at the time that Alshamrani had left a “path of extremism” in the days and weeks leading up to his attack.
US Attorney General Bilber at a press conference held in Washington, DC on December 21, 2020 (Michael Reynolds Pool)
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It led to the expulsion of 21 Saudi citizens who were training with US troops at facilities including Nas Pensacola.
“Saudi Arabia has determined that this document demonstrates actions to protect the Royal Saudi Air Force, the Royal Navy and 21 cadet officers, and is released from their training curriculum in the US military and will return to Saudi Arabia later today,” Burr said.
This is a developing story and will be updated.
Greg Norman contributed to this report.
