BALTIMORE _ U.S. Rep. C.A. Dutch Ruppersberger is at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center in Bethesda, Md., where an active shooter was reported Tuesday afternoon.
Ruppersberger, D-Md., tweeted about 2:30 p.m. local time that he and others at the military hospital had been told there is an active shooter, and that he was "currently safe in a conference room (with approximately) 40 others."
A Montgomery County Police spokeswoman confirmed officers received a call at 2:27 p.m. reporting a possible active shooter at Walter Reed.
The reports of a shooter remained unconfirmed and officers were on scene in a "support and assist" capacity, the spokeswoman said.
Jaime Lennon, Ruppersberger's spokeswoman, confirmed that Ruppersberger was at the facility for a personal medical appointment.
Lennon said she had exchanged text messages with the congressman, and that he had told her that he and a group of others had been pulled into a conference room but had been given very little information.
"I'm texting with him and they really haven't given him much information," Lennon said.
