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All （疑いを）晴らす at USA Today HQ after 報告（する）／憶測 of man with 武器

Published: 18:25 BST, 7 August 2019 | Updated: 21:30 BST, 7 August 2019

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McLEAN, Va. (AP) - The northern Virginia office building that houses USA Today was 避難させるd for several hours Wednesday for what police said was an unsubstantiated 報告（する）／憶測 of an 武装した man.

Fairfax 郡 Police 長，指導者 Edwin Roessler said SWAT teams had searched "every インチ" of the building after receiving a 911 call around noon 報告（する）／憶測ing that someone who 以前 worked there had been seen with a gun.

The person 言及／関連d in the 911 call was 位置を示すd どこかよそで, Roessler said. No one in the building was 傷つける and there was no 指示，表示する物 that anyone had committed a 罪，犯罪, he said.

"I'm very 感謝する to 報告（する）／憶測 that this was a nonevent," Roessler said at a 圧力（をかける）会議／協議会.

USA Today 報告（する）／憶測d that alarms sounded and police squad cars converged on the scene in McLean as 従業員s waited outside. 警官s with ライフル銃／探して盗むs and 団体／死体 armor patrolled the area, and a ヘリコプター hovered 総計費.

Photos showed 旗s at the building 飛行機で行くing at half-staff. The 出来事/事件（機の）カム as the nation reels from its 最新の集まり狙撃s - at a Walmart 蓄える／店 in El Paso, Texas, and an entertainment 地区 in Dayton, Ohio. A 連合させるd 31 people were killed and dozens 負傷させるd in いっそう少なく than 24 hours in those two 週末 attacks.

A Fairfax Police 戦術の officer walks 近づく the building that houses Gannett and USA Today, Wednesday, Aug. 7, 2019, in McLean, Va. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Roessler 賞賛するd the 返答 Wednesday from 労働者s inside the building, 説 even though the 出来事/事件 had 混乱に陥れる／中断させるd 商売／仕事, it showed that people are "training themselves" to speak up when something seems amiss and to take 活動／戦闘 to 保護する human lives during violent events.

Taylor Rosa, an accountant for USA Today's owner, Gannett - which also has its （警察，軍隊などの）本部 in the building - said he was in his office when co-労働者s told him there were police with 団体／死体 armor on the campus. But he and others went 支援する to work.

Rosa said his 初期の guess was that some sort of VIP was visiting the （警察，軍隊などの）本部 and had police 保護. About five minutes later, they were told to 避難させる the glass structure tucked in Tysons Corner in a 列／漕ぐ／騒動 of other 法人組織の／企業の campuses.

"There were some people that definitely had panic in their 直面するs" as they 避難させるd, Rosa said.

"Mostly we were just a little 混乱させるd," he said.

Roessler said he couldn't say for sure whether the person 報告（する）／憶測d to be in the building was a Gannett 従業員. The building also houses other tenants.

He also 支配するd out the 可能性 that the 報告（する）／憶測 was a 事例／患者 of "swatting," in which someone 報告（する）／憶測s a 誤った緊急 to get 当局 to descend on an 演説（する）／住所.

The 出来事/事件（機の）カム just two days after GateHouse マスコミ, a 急速な／放蕩な-growing chain 支援するd by an 投資会社／堅い, 発表するd it was buying Gannett in a $1.4 billion 合併 of two of the largest U.S. newspaper companies.

The companies said they were committed to journalistic excellence - while also cutting costs by $300 million 毎年. The 連合させるd company would have more than 260 daily papers in the U.S. along with more than 300 週刊誌s.

Newspapers have been the 的 of 集まり shooters before. In June 2018, five 従業員s of the 資本／首都 Gazette newspaper in Annapolis, Maryland, were fatally 発射 inside the newsroom.

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Associated 圧力（をかける） writers Sarah Rankin in Richmond, Virginia, and Randall Chase in Dover, Delaware, 与える／捧げるd to this 報告（する）／憶測.

People 避難させる近づく the building that houses Gannett and USA Today, Wednesday, Aug. 7, 2019, in McLean, Va. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

A Fairfax Police 戦術の officer walks 近づく the building that houses Gannett and USA Today, Wednesday, Aug. 7, 2019, in McLean, Va. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

First responders are seen 近づく the building that houses Gannett and USA Today, Wednesday, Aug. 7, 2019, in McLean, Va. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

An ATF special スパイ／執行官 readies his gear 近づく the building that houses Gannett and USA Today, Wednesday, Aug. 7, 2019, in McLean, Va. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Fairfax 郡 Police 長，指導者 Edwin Roessler 簡潔な／要約するs reporters on 報告（する）／憶測s of a man with a gun entering the McLean office building that is home to USA Today （警察，軍隊などの）本部, Wednesday, Aug. 7, 2019 in McLean, Va. Roessler says it's not （疑いを）晴らす yet whether that 報告（する）／憶測 is true. He says so far there are no 報告（する）／憶測s of 射撃s 存在解雇する／砲火／射撃d. (AP Photo/Matthew Barakat)