--- title: "Armed suspect apprehended at Naval Air Station Corpus Christi" description: "An armed suspect was taken into custody at Naval Air Station Corpus Christi on Wednesday morning after a brief lockdown period, according to the Texas base's Facebook account" date: "2019-12-11" modified: "2019-12-11" authors: - name: "David Roza" job_title: "YouTube Writer/Editor" link: "https://taskandpurpose.com/authors/david-roza/" url: "https://taskandpurpose.com/news/nas-corpus-christi-lockdown/" categories: - "Around the World" - "Military Branches" - "Navy" - "News" - "United States" tags: - "Northern Command" - "Terrorism" --- # Armed suspect apprehended at Naval Air Station Corpus Christi ![]() An armed suspect was taken into custody at Naval Air Station Corpus Christi on Wednesday morning after a brief lockdown period, [according]() to the Texas base's Facebook account. Though the exact nature of the incident is unclear, base officials wrote that no shots were fired and no injuries were reported. As of 10:30 am, the NAS Corpus Christi Facebook page [announced]() that the lockdown had been lifted and the base gates were opened for normal traffic. The lockdown came amid heightened security at U.S. military bases following a two high-profile incidents at Navy installations in one week. On Dec. 6, a shooting at Naval Air Station Pensacola in Florida left three sailors dead. The day before, a sailor killed two civilians and then himself at Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam. There was also no indication that the incident at NAS Corpus Christi was connected to the NAS Pensacola shooting, the base [said](). NAS Corpus Christi had faced at least two similar incidents in the last year, according to Navy Times. In October, a person who officials said was "possibly armed" somehow made it onto base grounds. In February, security forces shot and killed a man who crashed a stolen SUV through a the base's main gate. On Facebook, NAS Corpus Christi calls itself "home to Naval pilot training since 1941." The station is also home to the Corpus Christi Army Depot, the primary maintenance hub for DoD rotary wing aircraft. ## Author David Roza writes scripts about military news for the Task & Purpose YouTube channel, and he also writes articles about military pay, benefits, health care, child care, culture, and other personnel topics on a freelance basis. Roza previously covered the Air Force and Space Force for Task & Purpose from 2019 to 2023 and for Air & Space Forces Magazine from 2023 to 2025. In the course of that reporting, he has set off a ‘Hollywood explosion’ with Air Force bomb techs, turned the (unarmed) keys of a nuclear missile bunker, hovered over the Nevada desert on an Air Force rescue helicopter, and got the best sleep of his life on the floor of a C-17 over the central Pacific. Share tips and story ideas with David at [david.roza@teamrecurrent.io]()