2 Coast Guard members killed after shootings at Alaska station

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    Two Coast Guard members were fatally shot at a communications station on an island off Alaska, officials said Thursday.

Officials said it remained unclear if the deaths at the Coast Guard Station on Kodiak Island were a double homicide or murder-suicide. Capt. Jesse Moore said it was "possible that the suspect remains at large."

The Guard said the identities of the victims would be released after family members were notified. Officials did not yet know whether the shootings took place Wednesday or earlier Thursday.


                   

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2 Coast Guard members shot dead on Alaskan island

  (CNN) -- Two Coast Guard members have been shot dead on an island off Alaska's coast, prompting the lockdown Thursday of their base and at least one nearby school.

The Coast Guard offered few immediate details Thursday afternoon as to how, when or why two of its own were killed. Capt. Jesse Moore did acknowledge, though, "It is possible the suspect remains at large."

"We are deeply saddened that we lost two shipmates," Moore said in a news release. "This is a rare occurrence, and we are going to do everything possible to ensure we find out exactly what happened."

The victims, who have not been identified by name, were members at the Coast Guard Communications Station Kodiak.

Their base is on what the city of Kodiak's website calls the second-largest island in the United States, situated in the Gulf of Alaska about 250 miles southwest of Anchorage. The borough of Kodiak Island has about 13,600 people, according to the U.S. Census Bureau.                   

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