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by Buck • 5:57 pm
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BREAKING NEWS
NASA building evacuated after gunshots
Worker barricaded at Johnson Space Center, police say
A building at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston was evacuated Friday after shots were fired there, authorities said. The gunman was thought to be barricaded inside.
NASA security personnel as well as Houston police responded to “a report about a person with a weapon” at Building 44 on the space center’s campus, agency spokeswoman Lynette Madison told MSNBC.com.
Police surrounded the facility and evacuated the building. The suspect - reportedly a contract worker for NASA - was still inside, a police spokesman said. “We have one suspect, a white male, approximately 50 to 60 years old, with one weapon, that being a handgun,” Houston Police Capt. Dwayne Ready told reporters.
