[Diddle E. Squat]

Capitol building is not affected at this time.

[hoosierboy]

Lone gunman?

check the grassy knoll

[OXENinFLA]

Was there a shooting or just a kid waving a 'toy' gun around?

[theDentist]

What's significant about the Cannon House?

[mhking]

Per Joe Johns/MSNBC: There is a consideration of closing/evacuating the Cannon building and doing a room-to-room search.

[Cincinatus]

How the hell did he get through the metal detector?

[chance33_98]

Was his name Luke?

[Merovingian]

evacuation of building being considered...

Unsure whether this weapon is real or fake, was in backpack of young male..

See building here:
See this building here:
http://www.aoc.gov/cc/cobs/images/chob_1.jpg

[mhking]

Per FNC: Gun was seen in backpack as men went through security; the man grabbed the backpack and darted off into the building.

[I_love_weather]

Police have orders to "take the man down"

[mhking]

Police have been ordered to "take the gunman down."

[I_love_weather]

People now leaving the building...

Police getting as many people out as possible...

[EternalVigilance]

This is probably completely irrelevent, but in the wee hours last night there were helicopters flying incessantly in the Capitol Hill area.

And no, I don't know if they were black. ;-)

But they were up there doing something, no joke.

[mhking]

CNN (still with Rummy): "Tunnels to Capitol being sealed off"

[show me state]

http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml;jsessionid=OUIBWWDS5AFYWCRBAEKSFFA?type=topNews&storyID=3725968


U.S. Capitol Office Building Shut on Gunman Report
Thu October 30, 2003 01:51 PM ET

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A U.S. House of Representatives office building was shut down on Thursday by Capitol police, who said they received a report that a person with a gun may have breached security.

"We have information that someone with a gun made an unauthorized entrance into the Cannon office building," U.S. Capitol Police spokeswoman Jessica Gissubel told a local NBC affiliate. The man was possibly carrying a .38 caliber pistol, she said.

[witnesstothefall]

Man with a gun is a woman, per CNN.

[Nexus]

A she per CNN

[Dr. Eckleburg]

CNN reporting it was a woman dressed as a man.

[jpl]

They let a guy with a gun just run through the House security checkpoint without putting a round or two in his ass?

[arasina]

Who does he want to shoot?