TUCSON, Ariz.?? Davis-Monthan Air Force Base was locked down Friday after a man carrying what appeared to be a gun was spotted entering a base building, NBC News reported.
Federal officials told NBC News the man was "holed up" inside a base building, apparently alone, and that security officials were trying to talk to him.
A source told The Arizona Republic that an armed civilian was barricaded in a room on the second floor of a building known as the "Old Dorm." The source told the newspaper the man took no hostages.
Base officials said earlier that no shots had been fired and no one injured.
The lockdown was ordered around 10 a.m. after base officials received a report that someone saw a man with a weapon at an old dormitory building, base spokesman Tech Sgt. Russell Martin told reporters.
Several emergency vehicles were earlier seen headed to the base, about five miles southeast of Tucson. Martin said those vehicles may have been responding to a call of a woman on base who was in labor.
Senior Airman Timothy Dunaway said traffic was reduced to a single point entry; vehicles lined up at the base's main gate and were being turned around.
Alison Bunnell, who lives at the base with her husband and their four children, was turned away when she tried to return to the base after having left it.
Bunnell said she was told that children at the base's schools were oblivious to what was going and were watching movies and eating snacks. She said she wasn't worried. "We have exercises all the time," Bunnell said.
Davis-Monthan is adjacent to the Pima Air & Space Museum and the "boneyard" for old military and government airplanes that is a popular destination for aviation enthusiasts.
The base is the home of the 355th Fighter Wing, and provides attack airpower, combat support and medical forces, according to the base's Facebook page.
Security at military bases has gained more attention in the last two years since an Army major went on a rampage at Fort Hood in Texas in 2009. Maj. Nidal Hasan is charged with 13 counts of premeditated murder and 32 counts of attempted premeditated murder in the shooting spree. Investigators have foiled other plots against military bases in other parts of the country since Sept. 11.
? 2011 msnbc.com
Source: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/44553200/ns/us_news-security/
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