Two cops wounded in Pentagon shootout

Two Pentagon Police officers and a suspected gunman were wounded in a shootout Thursday night when the man tried to get into the Department of Defense headquarters, the first shooting of its kind in the building’s 67-year history.

Police said the man, who law enforcement sources told The Associated Press has been identified as 36-year-old John Patrick Bedell, approached the Pentagon security checkpoint by the Metrorail station outside Arlington at about 6:40 p.m.