Update: FBI asks shooter to come forward

Update Noon

An employee arriving at the National Museum of the Marine Corps on Friday morning found the damage caused by the latest round of shots fired at the building.

Those shots were believed to have come between 9 p.m. Thursday and 6 a.m. Friday from the west side of the museum,which faces Interstate 95, said Prince William police spokesman Mike Crosbie.

No one was inside the building when it was hit, and bullet holes were found on the same side of the building that was damaged when shots were fired there Oct. 17.

Police have not yet linked this latest shooting to the earlier shooting at the Marinem museum, or the subsequent shootings this month at the Pentagon or at a Marine Corps recruiting center in Chantilly – but they are working on it, authorities said.

Crosbie said police once more plan to search Interstate 95 near the museum for clues, but did not say when that will happen.

FBI investigators said the person who has been taking shots at these buildings most likely has a grudge with the Marine Corps organization and not with individual Marines. It’s possible the shooter could have faced a recent traumatic event recently, such as the loss of a job, said Perren.

No one has been hurt in any of the shootings, and investigators are asking the person who is behind the shootings to come forward, said FBI Assistant Director John Perren.

Authorities also asked anyone who may have a friend or a family member who has been acting suspiciously, or has been away from home during the early-morning hours in which the shootings occurred, to report them to the FBI.

Authorities have not said what type of gun or what caliber of bullet was used in any of the shootings.

Crosbie did not say exactly how many bullets were fired at the museum overnight, offering only “several bullets” were fired.

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Update 11 a.m.

The FBI will hold a press conference at 11 a.m. in Washington to discuss the latest shooing at the National Museum of the Marine Corps Museum.

Triangle, Va. –– Prince William County police have confirmed to TBD.com that additional shots were fired at the National Museum of the Marine Corps sometime after it closed Thursday night.

The museum is closed to visitors right now, and the museum’s spokeswoman was unavailable for comment Friday morning. No one was injured.

The additional shots come hours after FBI investigators linked the shooting at the museum on Oct. 17, which damaged the glass facade of the museum, to the shootings that took place at the Pentagon two days later, and at a Marine Corps recruiting station in Chantilly earlier this week.

When the FBI reported on Tuesday the shooting the Marine Corps recruiting center, they also said the shootings at the Pentagon and Marine museum were linked.

No one was injured in any of the shootings, which so far have taken place during the overnight hours.

This latest shooting comes as officials at the museum were waiting on an estimate on how much it was going to cost to repair the shattered glass from the first shooting.

On Tuesday, Marine Corps museum spokeswoman Gwen Adams said that despite the bullet holes from the first shooting still being visible, the museum was still open to visitors and that none of the artifacts had been damaged.