Mike Irwin
October 30, 2003, 02:23 PM
after report of gun.
From Reuters-Yahoo:
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A U.S. House of Representatives office building was shut down and was being evacuated on Thursday after a report that a person with a gun may have breached security, a top lawmaker said.
Rep. Bob Ney (news, bio, voting record), an Ohio Republican who chairs the committee that runs House operations, told reporters that Capitol police were alerted after a person with what appeared to be a hand gun concealed in a knapsack passed through a security check point in the Cannon House office building.
"Right now there's an individual -- we don't know if it's a real weapon or a fake weapon, but we can't take any chances -- believed to be in the building," Ney said.
The building was initially closed, and authorities later decided to evacuate it. Congressional staffers and visitors were searched as they left the office building. Capitol police were an conducting office-by-office search, Ney said.
From Reuters-Yahoo:
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A U.S. House of Representatives office building was shut down and was being evacuated on Thursday after a report that a person with a gun may have breached security, a top lawmaker said.
Rep. Bob Ney (news, bio, voting record), an Ohio Republican who chairs the committee that runs House operations, told reporters that Capitol police were alerted after a person with what appeared to be a hand gun concealed in a knapsack passed through a security check point in the Cannon House office building.
"Right now there's an individual -- we don't know if it's a real weapon or a fake weapon, but we can't take any chances -- believed to be in the building," Ney said.
The building was initially closed, and authorities later decided to evacuate it. Congressional staffers and visitors were searched as they left the office building. Capitol police were an conducting office-by-office search, Ney said.