GREAT LAKES, Ill. (AP) -- Officials say a man who drove onto a naval station north of Chicago without showing credentials, leading to the base being locked down, turned out to be an employee who didn't follow directions.
John Sheppard, a spokesman for Naval Station Great Lakes, said in a news release that the man was caught a short time after entering the base shortly after 7 a.m. Friday.
The base issued an initial warning on its Facebook page for personnel to "RUN, HIDE, FIGHT!" but it later described it as a "minor situation" and lifted the total lockdown.
Sheppard says the worker didn't follow the gate sentry's directions.
Friday's gate-runner follows another incident that led to deadly results late last year at Joint Expeditionary Base Little Creek-Fort Story.
On November 30, 2019, a driver barreled towards Gate 8 and hit Petty Officer 3rd Class Oscar Jesus Temores' military car. The sailor died on his way to the hospital.
The driver, 38-year-old Nathaniel Lee Campbell, is charged with involuntary manslaughter. Court documents said Campbell was driving at 81 miles per hour before he crashed into the Navy patrol car.
