10-03-2013, 11:57 AM
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Witnesses reported hearing gunshots outside the Capitol after 2 p.m. Thursday, setting off a huge police response and heightened security inside the Capitol, which was already tense during shutdown negotiations.
?Gunshots have been reported on Capitol Hill requiring staff in all Senate office buildings to immediately shelter in place,? read an e-mail sent out by the Capitol Police. ?Close, lock and stay away from external doors and windows. Take annunciators, emergency supply kits and escape hoods; and move to your office?s assigned shelter in place location or the innermost part of the office away from external doors or windows.?
Members not near their own offices were asked to go to the nearest office, and shelter there.
Capitol police officers could be seen with semiautomatic rifles drawn as they scrambled for position on the Capitol grounds.
Several senators were outside the Capitol when they reported between four and six shots fired. Police officers in a high-speed chase pulled over a black car in front of one of the Senate office buildings, but witnesses said a man fled on foot with a gun visible.
?I heard a pop-pop-pop, and we were told to get down,? said Senator Bob Casey, Democrat of Pennsylvania.
Senator Sherrod Brown, Democrat of Ohio, said he saw people in the area drop to the ground, and Capitol police officers yelled for him, Mr. Casey and Senators Jeff Merkley of Oregon, Roger Wicker of Mississippi and Bernie Sanders of Vermont to lie on the ground.
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The United States Capitol was placed on lockdown Thursday afternoon after shots were fired in the vicinity of the chamber. At least one Capitol Police officer was injured, officials said
The FBI was responding to the scene, and a helicopter landed in front of the Capitol. A message from the Capitol Police ordered anyone in a House office to "shelter in place."
"Close, lock and stay away from external doors and windows," the message said.
The House recessed, and the Senate went into a quorum call ? dispensing momentarily with its official business ? shortly thereafter.
?We?ve locked the doors. We closed the window shades. And we are awaiting further instructions,? Rep. Jared Polis (D-Colo.) told MSNBC. ?We?re more or less cut off here. We?re watching TV and just trying to figure out what happened.?
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