A man was shot in the lobby of the Fox 5 television station in Northwest Washington Monday afternoon, D.C. police said. The manās condition was not immediately available.
The shooting occurred shortly after 3 p.m. at the longtime location for WTTG-5 at 5151 Wisconsin Avenue, D.C. police spokesman Dustin Sternbeck said.
Lindsay Watts, a reporter for Fox 5, tweeted that a security guard āshot a man attempting to enter our building unauthorized. Man was conscious as he was transported into ambulance a few minutes ago.ā
Another Fox reporter, Evan Lambert, tweeted the police told them there was āno ongoing threat.ā
Sternbeck could not confirm the report that a security guard at the station had shot the man.
Sternbeck said he did not think the wounded man had reached the newsroom of the station.