FBI: Person in custody following hours-long ‘barricade situation’ at Fort Belvoir in Virginia

FORT BELVOIR, Va. — A person is in custody after FBI and other law enforcement officials responded to a barricade situation at Fort Belvoir in Fairfax County Sunday, authorities said.

According to officials, Fort Belvoir law enforcement officials and the FBI Washington Field Office’s (WFO) National Capital Response Squad, as well as local police responded to an ongoing barricade situation around 8 a.m. 

WUSA9 witnessed military police and a military SWAT vehicle in the area. 

The situation was resolved, and a person was taken into custody just before 3 p.m., the agency said. The FBI WFO is providing victim assistance services.

Outside Walker Gate at Fort Belvoir where military police and SWAT vehicles have been coming & going, following scanner reports of a man with a gun barricaded in a home on the base pic.twitter.com/miOG8YDAzB

— Katie Kyros (@KatieKyros) October 23, 2022

Department of the Army Criminal Investigation Division is the lead investigative agency.

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