Security guards at one of the entrances to Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland came under fire in a drive-by shooting early Saturday morning. No injuries were reported.
Air Force security officers were fired on by someone in a sedan that drove past the gate to the Chapman Training Annex at Lackland around 4:30 a.m., JBSA spokeswoman Stefanie “Stevi” Antosh told the San Antonio Express-News.
Air Force Security Forces returned fire with their service weapons. No one was injured in the exchange of gunfire, Antosh said. It wasn’t known how many rounds were fired, how many shooters there were, or what their motive was.
Authorities closed the main gate to the annex on Military Highway and directed motorists to use other routes. The gate reopened around 9:40 a.m., and the installation’s security condition remained unchanged at Force Protection Condition Bravo.
The base was never locked down, Antosh said.
“We don’t know what, if anything, started it,” she said. “It would be speculating. But it wasn’t an active threat to the installation, and there is no active threat to the installation.”
The base resumed normal operations. It was not clear if Air Force Security Forces would assign more personnel to the gates at Lackland and other facilities on JBSA, which included Randolph AFB, the Army’s Fort Sam Houston and the Camp Bulllis training ground.
San Antonio Police Department officers responded to the scene of the shooting and were helping to collect evidence.