The woman who called in a fake active shooter threat at a New Jersey military base wanted to “trauma bond” with coworkers, investigators said.

Malika Brittingham, a civilian Navy employee at Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst , was arrested Tuesday in connection with the threat.

The Army-Navy-Air Force base around 20 miles southeast of Trenton went into lockdown for about an hour on Tuesday afternoon before an “all-clear” was given.

Brittingham texted someone around 10:15 a.m. and said she heard multiple gunshots and was hiding with other people in a closet , according to federal investigators. The text message recipient called the base’s 911 operations center and repeated Brittingham’s warning, leading to the base-wide lockdown.

Authorities said that when Brittingham was initial

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