Pentagon confirms reports of officer killed in shootout near its headquarters
Associated Press reported on Tuesday that a Pentagon police officer was stabbed to death outside the building
WASHINGTON, August 4. /TASS/. The US Department of Defense confirmed that a Pentagon Force Protection Agency officer was killed in a shootout near the Pentagon building on Tuesday.
"On behalf of everyone working at the Pentagon, and across the Department of Defense, I extend my deepest sympathies to the family, loved ones and colleagues of the Pentagon Force Protection Officer who died as a result of injuries he received this morning," US Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin said in a statement.