Malika Brittingham, the woman in custody for making a false report of an active shooter at Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst in New Jersey and causing a lockdown wanted to "trauma bond" with her coworkers, according to court documents.

A criminal complaint filed in federal court said Brittingham — who works for the Naval Air Warfare Center in Maryland but is assigned to Joint Base MDL — texted someone around 10:15 a.m., writing that a shooter was on the base, that she had heard five or six shots and that she was hiding in a closet with coworkers.

The text prompted a lockdown order just before 11 a.m. Tuesday, after the person she texted called the base's operation center and 911, relaying what Brittingham told her, the complaint stated.

The lockdown, which drew statewide attention an

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