[GatewayPundit] There was a shooting Tuesday in Maryland near the US Army Base at Fort Detrick.
The 38-year-old suspect shot two men before he was shot dead.
One victim remains in critical condition and the other victim is being treated and will be released from the hospital tomorrow.
The shooter was identified by authorities as 38-year-old Navy Corpsman Fantahun Girma Woldesenbet.
He sounds like a New York City law firm. But really, what kind of a name is that?
"We can confirm that he is an active member of the Navy at the rank of E4," Frederick Police Chief Jason Lando said during a presser. "He resides in the city of Frederick, not on the military base and his residence is in the 100 block of Willowdale."
An active shooter emergency at a Maryland business park near Fort Detrick on Tuesday morning left two male U.S. Navy sailors maimed, with one still considered critical hours later, and the suspect, a Navy Hospital Corpsman, dead, officials said.
Woldesenbet allegedly began shooting with a rifle inside a Navy-related business at the Riverside Tech Park, causing people inside to flee, Frederick police and Fort Detrick officials said at a news conference. Frederick Police Chief Jason Lando said detectives are still trying to determine a possible motive.
Woldesenbet purportedly used a rifle in the shooting at a Navy-related facility in the office park, Lando said. No other weapons were believed to been found.
Brigadier General Michael J. Talley said Woldesenbet drove to the base after the initial shooting at the office park and sped past the gate before he could be searched. Talley said he made it about a half-mile into the installation before he was stopped at a parking lot. He then allegedly brandished his weapon at officers from the installation’s police force who had pursued him.
Talley said Sherlocks are looking at whether the shooter knew the victims, but refused to speculate, saying: "We don’t want to compromise any aspect of the investigation."
Fort Detrick is home to the military’s flagship biological defense laboratory and several federal civilian biodefense labs. About 10,000 military personnel and civilians work at the garrison, which encompasses about 1,300 acres in the city of Frederick.
Police had previously announced that they were "responding to an active shooter" on Progress Drive near Monocacy Boulevard. At approximately 8:20 a.m. local time, the shooter went into a business at the Riverside Tech park, about 4 miles from Fort Detrick, Lando said earlier Tuesday.
After the shooting, the suspect drove approximately 10 minutes to Fort Detrick, where he was killed by personnel there, officials said. 
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