Fort Knox Shooting, One Dead, Shooter On The Run


The Fort Knox shooting tragedy has left one man dead and one man on the run. On Wednesday at around 5:40 PM, the Fort Knox police received a 911 call that someone had been shot in the parking lot outside the US Army Human Resources Command (AHRC) on the Army base at Fort Knox in Kentucky.

The victim was rushed by ambulance to the base’s Ireland Army Community Hospital, where he was pronounced dead.

His name is not being revealed for 24 hours, to give the authorities time to contact his family. However, he is reported to be a civilian employee of AHRC, a position that requires handling what’s described as “personnel actions for soldiers.”

Nonetheless, a spokesman for the Army’s criminal investigators, Chris Grey, told CNN that they believed that the Fort Knox shooting was “a personal incident and not a random act of violence.”

Fort Knox was placed on lockdown within 10 minutes of the shooting, so that no vehicles could enter or leave for about an hour afterward, but officials no longer believe that the shooter is on the base. Fort Knox spokesman Kyle Hodges said that the base will remain on heightened security alert as of Wednesday night.

A so-called person of interest, who may be the fleeing shooter himself, is being sought. Authorities described him as a 5 foot 9 American black man traveling on a black Yamaha motorcycle.

The Army base is near the more famous Fort Knox, the US Bullion Depository where much of America’s gold reserves are secured. Texas recently called for $1 billion in gold to be pulled from the nation’s reserves and returned to Texas.

However, the gold by Texas governor Rick Perry is currently stored in a Federal Reserve vault in New York, so he can’t use the Fort Knox shooting to strengthen his argument.

[Fort Knox ramparts photo courtesy Muffet via Flickr]

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