Three Marines Die in Murder-Suicide at Quantico Base
WASHINGTON — It was 11 p.m. Thursday when loudspeakers abruptly blared at the Marine Corps Base Quantico in northern Virginia, ordering all residents to stay inside behind locked doors. The grisly explanation emerged Friday: A Marine had shot and killed another male Marine, and then seized and fatally shot a female Marine. He then took his own life. Col. David Maxwell, the base commander, said the incident was not a terrorist attack nor an attempt to cause mass casualties. All three Marines were employees at the officer candidate school and knew one another, he said. “This is a tragic loss for our Marine Corps family,” Maxwell said at a news conference at the base. The identities of the three Marines was not released pending notification of their families. No one else was harmed. Maxwell said the base provost marshal’s office received an emergency call at 10:30 p.m. Thursday reporting a possible shooting at the Taylor …
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