Police say two people have died in an apparent murder-suicide at Lackland Air Force Base in San Antonio, Texas.
Bexar County sheriff's spokesman James Keith said the shooting unfolded on Friday morning at the facility, which is the home of Air Force basic training.
The commanding officer of the 331st K-9 Training Squadron at the base was shot by an airman, according to initial internal Pentagon communications cited by the Air Force Times.
Shortly before news broke of the shooting, Lackland said in a tweet it had a basic military training graduation event scheduled for Friday.
The sheriff's office said the attack happened at building 147 in the Medina Annex on base.
Authorities posted a warning on the Joint Base San Antonio Facebook page at 9:30am which said: "There is a real world active shooter situation at Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland Medina Annex and base and local authorities are on the scene at this time.
JBSA-Lackland is currently on lockdown."
The sprawling base has a population of around 10,000 people including a couple of schools.
Fort Hood in Texas was the site of the deadliest shooting at a US military base, when 13 people killed and 31 injured in 2009.
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