Sources: Capitol "gunfire" likely from air hammer [View All]

[Charlie Brown]

You have GOT to be kidding me.

http://www.cnn.com/2006/POLITICS/05/26/house.shots/index.html

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Law-enforcement sources at the Capitol said Friday that suspected sounds of gunshots heard in a House office building were made by a mechanic using a pneumatic hammer on an elevator, security expert Mike Brooks reported.

"It looks like this is going to be the source of the noise that they heard," Brooks said Friday afternoon.

Police, who conducted a room-by-room search of the Rayburn building, where some members of the House have their offices, issued an "all-clear" about 3:15 p.m.