naval air station. this is where some of the best pilots in the world go there to get training and they become even better, the home of the blue angels has a mentioned, there are four dead including the shooter who was engaged by the county sheriff s deputies and the governor as well as the base commander and the sheriff there commented applauding them for their heroism to not cower and not run, but to get there and actively engage the shooter and the sheriff now hesitantly finally did just confirm, we haven t on the type of weapon all day but said it was definitely a handgun. the base commander also saying that guns are not allowed to be brought onto the base. so this shooter snuck it in somehow. he was 1 of hundreds of foreign nationals and other air forces who have alliances with the
weapons are not allowed on base except for military security personnel. back to you, julie. julie: thank you very much. when you get more news, bring it to us. i want to bring in the fox news national security analyst, so much to unpack here. first of all, we want to talk about the active shooter. we know the weapon used was a handgun and that weapons were not allowed on this air base, this person was in aviation student from saudi arabia, authorities are now investigating the shooting as whether or not it was terrorism related. it sounds very much like that is the case. where does this investigation begin? very important at this stage of even we know about details, it is not the time to go over these details because of the witness situation and because of the investigation. however, what was offered is important. he is a saudi national, he was training under u.s. government agency to become a fighter pilot or any other function and that alone should lead us into some
it was a handgun. are you able to address whether or not the shooter s room was rated? i will not confirm that. i know the answers to your questions, i am not answering or confirming it not just because i am attempting to be trite, i am not the cognizant authority for this investigation. the fbi and ncis on base are the lead agencies on this, we are a support element. i am not at liberty to answer then. we now have an additional person wounded. we are going to stop the press conference right now and as we have more information will be sure to share that with everybody. thank you so much for your time. i am julie banderas intro
to the victims, a suggestion that the saudi government will need to help the victims in some way, he wasn t clear about what he meant by that. it was interesting hearing from the captain who was the pensacola naval air station base commander. he said that they had practiced for an active shooter drill just recently that they do so all the time. he also said weapons were not allowed on base but that this county national had a handgun that he clearly had gone through security with or had stored on base somehow but clearly that security labs will have to be investigatedo notable that the deputies who did rush in and were the ones to take down the shooter, he was a three to five minute response time. the deputies and the sheriff s department have a police station just outside the base, so they were very quick, they ran towards the gunfire but again,
would be speculation on my part to say that. again, i am not going to speak about his exact training right now. with the authorized to have a gun on base? weapons are not authorized on the base you cannot bring a weapon on base. can you talk a bit about the security measures, what type of measures are in place to keep something like this from happening? that is something difficult for me to speak here because our security measures we keep them to ourselves for a reason. i talk about our security measures but i will say that we practice, this is part of our training. civilian dod along with the county and sheriff s department and pensacola police department, we trained for active shooter scenarios regularly. we never expected, but we trained for it and we are ever vigilant for it. do you suspect there will be