2 sailors were injured in a shooting near Maryland s Fort Detrick. Here s what we know
Updated 10:41 PM ET, Wed April 7, 2021
Police respond to the shooting in Frederick, Maryland, on Tuesday morning. (CNN)Of the two sailors injured in a shooting Tuesday near a military installation in Frederick, Maryland, one remains in the hospital and one has been released, authorities said.
US Navy Hospitalman Casey Nutt, 26, was released from a trauma center on Tuesday night, and Hospital Corpsman 1st Class Carlos Portugal, 36, remains at the trauma center in critical condition, according to a press release Wednesday from local and federal authorities.
Both victims were taken from the scene by helicopter, police said.
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Garett Wagner was working Tuesday morning when a man wearing military fatigues and covered in blood walked into the Nicolock Paving Stones facility in Frederick, Maryland.
“‘I’ve been shot. Please help me. There’s an active shooter, he’s still chasing me,” the man said, according to Wagner, the operations manager at Nicolock.
The wounded man was 26-year-old US Navy Hospitalman Casey Nutt, according to a news release from Frederick officials.
Nutt was one of two sailors who were shot and wounded at what police called a “military institution” in the Riverside Tech Park in Frederick, not far from the Nicolock business.
WASHINGTON (AP) â A Navy medic who shot and wounded two U.S. sailors before he was killed by police on a nearby Army base was a laboratory technician assigned to a Naval medical research center on the base, according to his service record and a military official.
Fantahun Girma Woldesenbet, 38, and the two men he shot Tuesday at a government-leased military warehouse were all assigned to Fort Detrick in Frederick, authorities have said.
Employees at Nicolock Paving Stones, a business located in the same office park as the warehouse, assisted one of the wounded sailors, Navy Hospitalman Casey Nutt, 26, of Germantown, Maryland, after he fled the scene of the initial shooting. Nutt was released from a hospital on Tuesday evening, authorities said in a news release.