SUMTER —The FBI’s Columbia subject workplace is investigating a taking pictures incident that occurred the afternoon of Dec. 23 at Shaw Air Drive Base when a male suspect tried to realize entry.
An Airman assigned to the twentieth Safety Forces Squadron shot and injured the person who “illegally gained entry to the bottom with a prohibited weapon,” an FBI media launch stated Dec. 24.
The unidentified male topic stays in a Columbia-area hospital with accidents and is predicted to recuperate, the assertion stated.
There have been no different accidents reported.
An earlier press launch described the occasion as a “gate-runner” who was stopped round 1:30 p.m.
“There isn’t any indication that this remoted incident is said to terrorism or another violent extremism, and there’s no risk to most people,” the media alert stated.
The investigation is being carried out with help from the Air Drive Workplace of Particular Investigations.
“Because the investigation stays lively, further particulars can’t be offered at the moment,” FBI spokesman Kevin Wheeler stated within the media assertion.
Shaw is dwelling to the twentieth Fighter Wing (the Air Drive’s largest fight F-16 wing), ninth Air Drive (Air Forces Central), fifteenth Air Drive, Third Army/U.S. Army Central, and a number of other different items, in response to its web site.
Attain Schuyler Kropf at 843-937-5551. Comply with him on Twitter at @skropf47.
