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Shots Fired at Marine Corps National Museum

30 October 2010 04:55 (UTC +04:00)

Baku â€“ APA. Shots were fired overnight at the National Museum of the Marine Corps in Triangle, Va. â€“ the second time the facility has been targeted in a month, APA reports quoting â€œFox Newsâ€.
The shooting incident occurred just hours after the FBI linked a shooting that took place overnight Monday at a Marine recruiting center in Chantilly, Va., with two similar cases in the commonwealth -- including an earlier incident at the museum.
Authorities are investigating to see if the most recent shooting also is linked.
Staff came into work Friday morning at the museum and found new bullet holes, a public information officer at the museum told Fox News.
No artifacts were damaged and no one was hurt, the officer said
Ballistic evidence showed the same weapon was used in three previous shootings, the FBI said Thursday.
The latest of those shootings occurred at a vacant Marine recruiting station in Chantilly, Virginia sometime between Monday night and Tuesday morning.
In the early morning hours of October 19 police and FBI investigators responded in force when six shots were fired into the south side of the Pentagon, leaving bullets embedded in two different windows. At the time police said the weapon used was believed to be a high-powered rifle.
And just two days earlier police in Quantico, Virginia responded to a similar attack on the Marine Corps Museum, where bullets were also fired at windows in the early morning hours.
Authorities have yet to identify any suspects in the shootings and no one has been injured in any of the attacks.
Pentagon officials said on Thursday that extra police officers will be on duty for the Marine Corps Marathon, set to take place in Washington on Sunday morning.
Prince William County Police Department, the Quantico Marine Corps base military police and the FBI are investigating to see if the same weapon was used in the most recent shooting.
The National Museum of the Marine Corps will be closed at least until 1:00PM ET Friday.