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FBI Links Marine Corps Museum and Pentagon Shootings

Oct 26, 2010 – 5:37 PM
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Dana Chivvis

Dana Chivvis Contributor

(Oct. 26) -- The FBI announced this afternoon that ballistics evidence from two separate shooting incidents in the Washington, D.C., area -- one targeting the Marine Corps Museum, the other targeting the Pentagon -- came from the same weapon, The Washington Post reports. Authorities today are investigating a third shooting that occurred at the Marine Corps Recruiting Station in Chantilly, Va., sometime last night to see if it is also linked to the other two.

In the early morning on Oct. 17, five bullets struck the glass panels and five others struck the metal casing of the Marine Corps Museum. Then, just before 5 a.m. on Oct. 19, officers at the Pentagon reported hearing shots fired near the south parking lot. Authorities later found pieces from two bullets in windows on the third and fourth floors of the Defense Department building. They determined that four other bullets hit the side of the building.

Authorities have not said what kind of weapon was used in the attacks.

Read more at The Washington Post.


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