One of the nation’s largest veterans care facilities in the country was put on lockdown Friday morning after reports of an active-shooter and hostage situation, facility officials said.
“Law enforcement authorities have responded to the Yountville Veterans Home this morning following reports of gunfire near the main dining hall. The facility is on lockdown, and all residents and staff are sheltering in place. We will continue to update you as we get more information,” said state Department of Veterans Affairs spokesman Johsua Kiser in an email.
The 600-acre campus was put into lockdown about 10:40 a.m. and remained that way more than 30 minutes later.
“Everyone is just in alert mode, and we’re taking information as it comes,” Kiser told The Times in a phone interview from his office on the east side of the campus. “Our shades are drawn. Locked the doors.”
An employee who answered the phone said the shooter had taken three hostages but Kiser could not confirm it.
The Napa County Sheriff’s Office told people to avoid the area. The facility is just north of Napa, a destination for wine and tourism.
#BREAKING UPDATE: Active shooter reported at veterans home in Yountville. Shots reportedly fired near main dining hall. https://t.co/HUYTeBbxSF [Photo: @NapaRegister] pic.twitter.com/3JqLzkP2J1
— NBC Bay Area (@nbcbayarea) March 9, 2018
A large number of ambulances have arrived at Yountville Veterans home. Driver not specific as to why. NOT Codee 3 #abc7now pic.twitter.com/ad443FsSOz
— Wayne Freedman (@WayneFreedman) March 9, 2018
3 hostages taken, shots fired at Yountville Veterans Home https://t.co/GjhjG6x7AI
— KTVU (@KTVU) March 9, 2018
Authorities have urged residents to avoid the area.
http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-veterans-hostages-20180309-story.html
“The facility is just north of Napa, a destination for wine and tourism.”
Some drunk with a bb gun?
No plethora of info on this one, is there.
http://www.kfvs12.com/story/37690100/gunman-takes-3-hostages-at-california-veterans-home
“A military veteran receiving PTSD treatment…”
https://www.mercurynews.com/2018/03/09/veterans-home-in-napa-county-on-lockdown-after-reports-of-gunfire/
“The suspect is believed to have been a member of The Pathway Home, a privately run program for veterans of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars with emotional traumas. Early reports said the man, 36 years old, had been discharged from the treatment program two weeks ago.”
http://napavalleyregister.com/news/local/man-with-automatic-weapon-reported-at-veterans-home/article_9fb35442-8272-594b-a392-6294fcd9b26d.html
Thanks, Angel! 😀
“Chris Childs with California Highway Patrol said the gunman is armed with a rifle, but they don’t know what type.”
GOTTA be one of them thar ASSAULT RIFLES!!!
Of course it was. Plus, he was in “black, body armor”. Oh, and let’s not forget PTSD…
“At 10:20 a.m. PT (1:20 p.m. ET), reports came into police that a man dressed in black, wearing body armor and armed with an automatic weapon entered the grounds of the facility, according to the Napa Valley Register.”
Odd……drill gone live gone bad? Good thing is people are far more awake to the “tricks” and the complicit MSM spreading the narrative lie. Aware and exposing the lie making it go viral so others wake up.