WASHINGTON (Pakistan Point News / Sputnik - 28th November, 2018) The false report of an active shooter at a US naval support base at the Walter Reed National Military Medical Center was caused by misuse of the alert notification system, the Navy said in a press release.
"The active shooter event aboard Naval Support Activity Bethesda today was the result of the improper use of a mass notification system by a tenant command aboard the installation," the Navy said on Tuesday. "While preparing for an upcoming drill, the notification system was inadvertently enacted without containing the words 'EXERCISE' or 'DRILL.' Individuals who saw the mass notification statement immediately notified NSA Bethesda security [who]... instituted an installation-wide active shooter response."
NSA Bethesda security then conducted a probe and determined that the active-shooter response was the result of alert system user error.
The Walter Reed military hospital is located in Bethesda in the US state of Maryland just north of Washington, DC.
