An active shooter in San Diego has forced the US Federal Aviation Administration to prevent all flights from taking off or landing at the city’s airport.
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The shooter has barricaded himself inside an apartment building in the Bankers Hill neighborhood, and is firing with a long-range rifle. According to FAA spokesman Ian Gregor, the apartment complex is directly beneath the airport’s approach path, in the 2400 block of Brant Street, and a “full ground stop” has been implemented.
San Diego International is the only major US airport with only one active runway, so delays will be substantial.
“Due to police activity near the airport, a ground stop is in effect for all arriving aircraft. Check with your airline before coming to SAN,” the airport said in a statement.
Nearby residents have also been advised to take shelter. No one has been reported injured at this time.Tear gas has also been reportedly deployed, and reporters on the scene describe hearing flashbangs.
The apartment is located near both the airport and San Diego Zoo. A nearby elementary school is also on lockdown.
HT/ WiscoDave
quick, we need chuck u schumer in front of a camera calling for gun control! stat!
NO…………….we need one cop with an R P G !!!!!!!!!!!
Soooo … what’s a “passive” shooter?
Somebody who’s thinking about shooting?
Do the fukkin newsies think that using more words to say the same thing makes em sound smarter, or something?
How is an “active” shooter different from a shooter?
If he ain’t shooting, he ain’t a shooter.
(not being sexist; most of em are male)
Does language matter?
Lets hope it’s not some military person that’s gone off the deep end.
anyone seen joe and his shotgun lately?
It’s funny the National news media has picked this up but missed the 5 people that were stabbed 200 miles north of there thiss morning. Damn guns.
http://www.kcra.com/news/local-news/news-modesto/stabbing-reported-at-uc-merced-campus-suspect-apprehended/36254312
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I guess a passive shooter only blows your gut out with your permission.
See how easy it is to grind a major city to a halt with just ONE person, a gun, and a box of bullets? Just be located near a major facility or two (or three) (airport, zoo, and school in this case). And the po-po don’t even know exactly where the shooter is, just “somewhere in the neighborhood of. . . “.
Seems like there are a lotta Marines!!! in the San diego area. Could be a short news story!!!
Lot’s of Marines, a couple Seal Teams, and lots of Sailors.