Gunman Is Dead After Shooting at Naval Air Station Pensacola, Officials Say

A gunman was confirmed dead after opening fire Friday morning at Naval Air Station Pensacola, the authorities said.

The Escambia County Sheriff’s office said in a brief statement on Facebook that “there is no longer an active shooter” at the base, which employs more than 16,000 military personnel and 7,400 civilians. The sheriff’s office did not say how the gunman had died.

Candy McGuyre, a spokeswoman for Baptist Hospital in Pensacola, said that the hospital had received five patients so far but that she did not have their conditions. “They are going through triage,” she said.

Another nearby hospital, Ascension Sacred Heart, had been informed that six patients were en route, said Mike Burke, a spokesman.

The Pensacola Police Department and base security officials began receiving calls about the shooting around 6:30 a.m., said Jason Bortz, a spokesman for the base. He said that the shooting had occurred at one of the facility’s training areas. The base was put on lockdown.

Mr. Bortz said he could not immediately confirm the total number of injuries or any deaths.

He said that he believed there was only one gunman involved but that there would be an investigation.

The shooting was the second to occur this week at a Navy base.

The first, at Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam in Oahu on Wednesday, came as that installation was preparing for the 78th anniversary of the Japanese attack that marked the United States’ entry into World War II on Dec. 7. A sailor shot two workers and injured another before killing himself, according to the authorities, who have not outlined any possible motive for the attack.

The base at Pensacola, on Florida’s Panhandle, dates to the 1820s and is considered by the service to be the home of naval aviation. Since World War I, most Navy and Marine Corps aviators and flight officers have begun their flight training there, and it is where the Navy’s Blue Angels flight demonstration team is based as well.

Gov. Ron DeSantis of Florida said Friday morning that he was monitoring the situation at the base and was offering full support to law enforcement.

John Ismay and Nicholas Bogel-Burroughs contributed reporting.