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Published October 29, 2010 | FoxNews.comThe FBI is urging a unknown gunman to surrender as it investigates the fourth nighttime shooting at a Washington-area military building in a month.
"We appreciate that he is struggling right now," FBI spokeswoman Katherine Schweit said Friday. "This guy hasn't hurt anybody. We don't think he wants to. We're hoping that he'll turn himself in."
The latest shots were fired overnight at the National Museum of the Marine Corps in Triangle, Va. -- the second time the facility has been targeted in a month.
The shooting occurred just hours after the FBI linked a shooting that took place overnight Monday at a Marine recruiting center in Chantilly, Va., with a previous shooting at the Marine Corps museum and another at the Pentagon.
FBI Assistant Director John Perren said the overnight shooting bears the hallmarks of the others, but said authorities need to conduct forensic tests to see if they are connected.
Museum staff came into work Friday morning and found new bullet holes, a public information officer at the museum told Fox News.
No artifacts were damaged and no one was hurt, the officer said
FBI confirmed Thursday that ballistic evidence showed the same weapon was used in the previous shootings.
The latest of those shootings occurred at a vacant Marine recruiting station in Chantilly, Virginia sometime between Monday night and Tuesday morning.
In the early morning hours of October 19 police and FBI investigators responded in force when six shots were fired into the south side of the Pentagon, leaving bullets embedded in two different windows. At the time police said the weapon used was believed to be a high-powered rifle.
And just two days earlier police in Quantico, Virginia responded to a similar attack on the Marine Corps Museum, where bullets were also fired at windows in the early morning hours.
The most recent shooting also comes just days before the Marine Corps Marathon, which is set to take place in Washington on Sunday morning.
Authorities have yet to identify any suspects in the shootings and no one has been injured in any of the attacks.
Pentagon officials said on Thursday that extra police officers will be on duty for the Marine Corps Marathon.
Prince William County Police Department, the Quantico Marine Corps base military police and the FBI are investigating to see if the same weapon was used in the most recent shooting.
The National Museum of the Marine Corps will be closed at least until 1:00PM ET Friday.
Fox News' Justin Fishel, Mike Levine, James Sprankle and the Associated Press contributed to this report.
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