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Breaking news: Shooting in County Administrative Complex (update)

   August 12, 2016

Law enforcement has evacuated the Escambia County Administrative Complex on South Palafox Street. The street has been blocked off. The word is there has been an employee-involved shooting, one fatality. Stay tuned.

Update 3:01 pm: An county employee brought a gun into the building and took his life. No one else injured.

Update 3:26 pm: Assistant Pensacola Police Chief Tommy Lyter confirmed a fatality. There is no active shooter in the building. PPD will release limited information later today, more once the investigation is complete and the family notified.

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