On April 6th and April 8th the Virginia Fusion Center monitored two active shooter incidents in Frederick, Maryland and Bryan, Texas. The below product, produced in collaboration with Hanover County Shield, serves as an alert follow up for both events.
Active Shooter Updates
Date of Incidents - April 6th 2021/April 8th 2021
Frederick, Maryland Shooting Incident April 6, 2021
According to open source media, the Frederick, Maryland, police on Tuesday afternoon identified the Navy corpsman who shot two people at a tech park Tuesday morning before being shot and killed at nearby Fort Detrick.
Frederick Police Chief Jason Lando identified the shooter as E-4 Fantahun Girma Woldesenbet, 38, who lived in Frederick but not on the base. He added that the two who were wounded were also members of the Navy stationed at Fort Detrick. Lando said one of the two victims remains in critical condition. The other was released from the hospital Tuesday afternoon, police said.
The shooting was reported on April 6, 2021, at about 8:30 a.m. in the Riverside Tech Park, on Progress Drive not far from Monocacy Boulevard, in “a warehouse rented by Naval Medical Research Center, Biological Defense Research Directorate to store research supplies and equipment,” the city said in a statement later Tuesday.
According to open source media, one person was killed and five people were wounded Thursday in a shooting at a cabinet-making business in Bryan, Texas. A Texas DPS Trooper was also shot while pursuing the suspect.
The suspect, 27-year-old Larry Bollin of Grimes, Texas, has been taken into custody and charged with murder. Open source media is reporting the suspect may have been an employee at the Kent Moore Cabinets location.
Investigators are still trying to determine the motive of the attack.
Soft targets and crowded places are increasingly appealing to terrorists and other extremist actors because of their relative accessibility and the large number of potential targets. This challenge is complicated by the prevalent use of simple tactics and less sophisticated attacks.
The opinions or conclusions of the authors reflected in the open source articles does not necessarily reflect the opinion of the Virginia Fusion Center. The sources have been selected to provide you with event information to highlight available resources designed to improve public safety and reduce the probability of becoming a victim of a crime.
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