A “barricade situation” drew the FBI and other law enforcement officials to a U.S. Army base outside the nation's capital Sunday, according to the official Twitter account of Fort Belvoir in northern Virginia.
The FBI Washington Field Office said their National Capital Response Squad responded to the incident at 8 a.m.
The situation was resolved, and the subject was taken into custody shortly before 3 p.m., the FBI said. They are providing victim assistance services, and Army CID is the lead investigative agency.
No one was injured during the situation, the FBI said. It provided no other details during the incident except to say some of the gates to the installation remained open.
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Fort Belvoir sits on about 8,800 acres of land along the Potomac River in Fairfax County and is located about 20 miles (32 kilometers) south of Washington.
The base is home to several Army command headquarters, elements of the Army Reserve and Army National Guard and nine Department of Defense agencies, according to a Department of Defense website that serves the military community. The installation has 2,154 family housing quarters and seven child youth service facilities, according to Fort Belvoir's 2022 strategic plan.
