ALAMOGORDO, N.M. (AP) \u2014 A shooting at a U.S. Air Force base in New Mexico on Tuesday left one person dead and another wounded, according to military officials.<\/p>\n
The Holloman Air Force Base near Alamogordo, in southern New Mexico, was put on lockdown at about 5:30 p.m. because of reports of an active shooter near the base convenience store, according to a statement released by the 49th Wing. <\/p>\n
The person wounded has been taken for medical treatment, according to the statement. Security officials confirmed the base is safe and the lockdown was lifted.<\/p>\n
\u201cEmergency personnel are responding to the situation and there is no threat at this time,\u201d the statement said.<\/p>\n
The base convenience store was closed until further notice, the base said in a post on Facebook.<\/p>\n
Neither the names of the people shot nor additional details on the shooting have been released.<\/p>\n
The roughly 93-square-mile (240-square-kilometer) base houses the 49th Wing, which supports national security work and includes combat-ready airmen and guardians, according to its website.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ALAMOGORDO, N.M. (AP) \u2014 A shooting at a U.S. Air Force base in New Mexico on Tuesday left…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":434098,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[162788,23,793,7922,3828,3,3833,4382,19470,795,21,19,22,20,25,24],"class_list":["post-530319","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-states","tag-alamogordo","tag-america","tag-general-news","tag-gun-violence","tag-new-mexico","tag-news","tag-nm-state-wire","tag-shootings","tag-u-s-air-force","tag-u-s-news","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/530319","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=530319"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/530319\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/434098"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=530319"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=530319"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=530319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}