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Senate News Live Updates: Police search Senate office buildings after report of active shooter; later declare it a false alarm
Senate News Live Updates: Authorities issued a shelter-in-place order and searched Senate office buildings near the U.S. Capitol on Wednesday afternoon after a 911 call warned of a possible active shooter. But a floor-by-floor search of the three buildings found nothing, and Capitol Police Chief Tom Manger said the cause of the security scramble “may have been a bogus call.” “We found nothing concerning,” he said. “We got nobody who actually heard shots and certainly no victims.”
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Police search Senate office buildings after report of active shooter; later declare it a false alarm
Authorities issued a shelter-in-place order and searched Senate office buildings near the U.S. Capitol on Wednesday afternoon after a 911 call warned of a possible active shooter. But a floor-by-floor search of the three buildings found nothing, and Capitol Police Chief Tom Manger said the cause of the security scramble “may have been a bogus call.” “We found nothing concerning,” he said. “We got nobody who actually heard shots and certainly no victims.”
