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Lockdown lifted following earlier report of gunshot at Walter Reed Medical Center
Police officers arrive at the gates of the Walter Reed Medical Center in Bethesda, Md., Monday, July 6, 2015, police say they are checking on a report of a single shot fired at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center outside Washington. . (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)
July 6, 2015
The Associated Press contributed to this report
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Earlier, police investigated reports of a gunshot at Walter Reed Medical Center in Bethesda, Maryland.
Montgomery County police spokeswoman Natasha Plotnikov says a 911 caller reported hearing one shot inside Building 1, the original hospital on the campus in Bethesda, on Monday morning.
Social media posts indicate that the hospital was in a "Code White." According to an older Walter Reed Medical Center Facebook post, Code White is used to notify personnel of an active shooter and to shelter-in-place.
Walter Reed Bethesda will be conducting a Code White/Active Shooter Exercise on Thursday, February 27, 2014. Code White...
Posted by Walter Reed National Military Medical Center on Monday, February 24, 2014
The incident is still under investigation.
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