November 22, 2009
Fort Benning receives note threatening Fort Hood-type shooting
Note, package with bullets inside found outside motor pool
BY BEN WRIGHT -
benw@ledger-enquirer.com
A
suspicious package was found outside a motor pool Thursday morning
at Fort Benning with an anonymous note threatening an attack similar to the one at Fort Hood, Texas, the Army Times reported Saturday.
Elsie Jackson, a public affairs spokeswoman, confirmed that military police found the package on Kelly Hill after officers received a call to its 911 center.
Jackson refused to comment on specific details of the package but said it was seized and the area was secured.
Two weeks ago, Army psychiatrist Nidal Malik Hasan was accused in the Nov. 5 shooting spree at Fort Hood that left 13 people dead and approximately 29 wounded.
The Army Times said the package, with 20 hollow-point bullets and a threatening note, was found in the motor pool area under the 197th Training Brigade.
Discovery of the package came on the same day Gen. David Petraeus, commander of the U.S. Central Command, was in Columbus for Fort Benning’s Officer Candidate School graduation of 152 new second lieutenants at the Columbus Convention Center.
Jackson said the discovery of the package was an ongoing investigation but soldiers and families on post are safe. “All appropriate security measures were in place for the safety of soldiers and the community,” she said.
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