‘All clear’ at Navy Yard after shooting scare

Authorities gave the all clear on Thursday morning after Washington’s Navy Yard was locked down due to a report of an active shooter.

{mosads}Metropolitan Police Chief Cathy Lanier said law enforcement officials responded to a 911 call from a Navy Yard employee who thought she heard gunfire around 7:29 a.m.

“We’re happy that no one was hurt and that there is no evidence of a shooter,” she told reporters at the Navy Yard, the scene of a gunman’s deadly rampage less than two years ago.

Lanier added that there is no evidence “this was a hoax whatsoever.” 

Lanier refused to comment on whether the employee who made Thursday’s emergency call was also present during the 2013 attack.

Thursday’s incident comes amid heightened concerns of possible terrorism in the nation’s capital heading into the July 4 holiday weekend.

“We’re aware of what the discussion and the chatter is going into the holiday weekend, and we never change our posture,” she said.

“You have a city that is well-prepared,” she added of potential emergency responses to terrorism attacks.

The police chief also said the false alarm was still a valuable test of the lessons learned after a gunman killed 12 people at the Navy Yard in 2013.

“It appears that all the things we tried to correct from the last incident went very, very well,” Lanier said.

“This turned out to be a great exercise for us to fix what we wanted to fix,” she added. 

A government review of the 2013 incident called for increased safety and communications measures.

A Pentagon report countered that the attack could have been prevented had the gunman’s employer shared “behavior indicating psychological instability.”

The shooter was a Navy Yard contractor who entered the facility using valid security credentials.

— This report was updated at 11:49 a.m.