Woman shot outside CIA headquarters for failing to stop her car

A woman was shot in front of the CIA headquarters in Langley, Va., Thursday morning after she approached a gate in her vehicle at the agency's headquarters and failed to stop, according to reports.

It was security guards at the Langley complex who shot at the driver outside the agency's McLean building, CBS reported. The woman reportedly was shot in the upper body and was taken to a nearby medical center for emergency care.

The shooting was not fatal, police told media following the story, adding that the CIA is conducting an investigation to solve the case, the cause of which is unknown. They did not offer further details of the matter or reveal the identity of the woman who remains in custody.

The CIA closed its main gate Thursday

The intelligence agency wrote in a post on X that the main gate of the CIA's Langley complex was locked and ordered employees to seek alternate routes.

The front gate at Headquarters is closed until further notice. Please use alternate routes for Thursday, May 22nd.

The shooting where the woman was wounded came after two Israeli embassy employees were killed by a shooter in downtown Washington on Wednesday night. There was no indication that the incidents were related.

Fairfax County police responded to the incident around 4 a.m., providing assistance to CIA officers and coordinating traffic control, authorities also told MSNBC.

Other security incidents

This is the second incident at CIA headquarters in recent months, after a man turned a gun on himself outside the building in March. The man, in a suspected suicide attempt, held the gun to his head and police had to calm him down in an incident that lasted several hours.