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A security guard fired an intruder at a Fox TV affiliate in Washington, DC, Monday afternoon, the station and police said.
The incident happened a little after 3 pm. in the WTTG-TV building in the Friendship Heights neighborhood.
The 38-year-old has gone through at least one set of glass doors that usually require ID, the station said.
The safety officer first used pepper spray and then she fired with her gun while the spray did not slow down the man, police said. The intruder was shot once in the chest.
"He forcibly introduced himself by knocking on the door and the shootout occurred in the station hall," said the Cmdr of the Washington Police. Melvin Gresham said, adding that the man was not armed.
While the man was brought in an ambulance, he seemed conscious and moved his arms, showed a video. He was ranked as stable at George Washington University Hospital.
Gresham called the suspect "stable, alert and aware" and said the investigators were trying to reach his family.
WTTG reporter Lindsay Watts said she had just started to work when colleagues from the parking lot told her that there had been a shootout.
"It's very surreal to cover something like this outside of our workplace," Watts said.
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