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Washington Navy Yard: Police say 'all clear' after lockdown.......No shooting in town

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Washington Federal enforcement has given the "all clear" at the Washington Navy Yard on Thursday morning, after a lockdown forced employees to hold-in-place and crammed the Southeast D.C. neighborhood with police and machine vehicles.

In September 2013, military contractor Aaron Alexis killed 12 civilian workers at the Navy Yard's Building 197 before he was shot and killed by police. Some lawmakers have said Alexis fell through the cracks at the VA and should have been treated by mental health professionals, but they have stopped short of specifying what government doctors should have done differently.

The Navy Yard, in southeast Washington, is the country's oldest naval installation.

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Even though police gave the all-clear, Thursday's 911 decision elicited a very emotional response from the Washington, D.C. community. In 2013, twelve persons were fatally shot at the Washington Navy Yard, identical location the investigation passed off Thursday.

Navy flag officer Dixon Smith addressed the protection enhancements the Navy has tried to create since the last incident at the conference control Thursday, "We've learned more over the last couple years, we've exercised hard, we're attending to review this once more to envision what went right and what we will still improve upon to boost our procedures within the future."

Additionally, the country has been jumpy leading up to the fourth of Gregorian calendar month since officers have warned of doable terror threats around Independence Day.

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Police aforementioned a decision was placed from within a Navy Yard building news doable gun shot sounds, that is what prompted the imprisonment and investigation.

DC politician Muriel Bowser, DCPD police officer Cathy Lanier and Smith, commander of service installations, briefed reporters around eleven a.m., roughly AN hour when the all clear came out and a hunt of Navy Yard's facilities had been completed.

"At this point there's no proof of gun shots, there's no proof of a shooter and there's no proof of any victims these days," Bowser aforementioned.

 

The officials praised response time of emergency officials as well as Navy Yard workers, who have seen protocol change since the 2013 shooting.

"It appears that all the things we tried to correct and make better from the last incident went well," Lanier said.