Marine Corps’ Twentynine Palms Base Lockdown Brought on by Inadvertent Weapon Discharge

WENTYNINE PALMS, Calif. — An unintended discharge of a weapon put a U.S. Marine Corps coaching middle within the Southern California desert on lockdown for a number of hours Monday, a base assertion mentioned.

No accidents have been reported within the incident on the huge Marine Corps Air Floor Fight Middle situated at Twentynine Palms, 125 miles (201 kilometers) east of Los Angeles.

The assertion mentioned the incident remained below investigation. It gave no particulars of who was concerned within the the inadvertent discharge, the place it occurred and the kind of weapon.

A shelter-in-place order was lifted at 12:20 p.m.

“The set up is safe and base personnel are free to renew exercise,” the assertion mentioned.

The bottom earlier reported that an nameless report of pictures fired was acquired at 8:52 a.m. and a lockdown was carried out.

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