Person in custody after shooting outside CIA headquarters
The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) Headquarters, is seen from a commercial airliner as it files over the CIA campus in Langley, Va., July 24, 2023. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais, File)
WASHINGTON — Security guards opened fire on Thursday on a person outside the gates of the CIA's headquarters near Washington, D.C., and then took the suspect into custody, the intelligence agency said.
A CIA spokesperson said security staff 'engaged a person' outside the main gates, and a source familiar with the matter said the suspect was a woman.
The spokesperson declined to say whether gunfire struck the suspect or to disclose any other details of the incident, except to say the person was now in custody.
NBC News reported earlier that the person was shot, citing a person with knowledge of the matter.
It was not immediately known why security officers opened fire or what the person was doing at the time of the shooting.
The incident occurred around 4 a.m. (0800 GMT), a Fairfax police spokesperson told ABC News.
The CIA closed the main gate at its Langley compound and directed employees to seek alternate routes.
The shooting incident came after two Israeli Embassy staffers were killed by a lone gunman in downtown Washington on Wednesday night. There was no indication the incidents were related.
Reporting by Jonathan Landay, Erin Banco, Doina Chiacu; Writing by Matt Spetalnick; Editing by Brendan O'Brien, Lisa Shumaker and Alistair Bell.
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