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Rear Adm. Mary M. Jackson, the commander of the Navy Southeast Region, speaks at a news conference in Chattanooga, Tenn., on Wednesday, July 22, 2015, about the shootings that left four Marines one sailor dead.
If White and the Marine were indeed armed with personal firearms at the support center, they would likely have been in violation of Defense Department policy.
According to Fox News, law enforcement officials said they recovered a Glock, which had been fired, at the scene of the crime and acknowledged that it did not belong to either the shooter or the police. “It could have been a frightful, awful massacre – so much worse”.
On Monday, a family spokesman told the AP that Abdulazeez was first treated by a child psychiatrist for depression at age 12 or 13.
Recently, Abdulazeez had begun working the night shift at a manufacturing plant and was taking medication to help with problems sleeping in the daytime, the person said, and he had a prescription for muscle relaxants because of a back problem. The military will investigate whether the service members were authorized to have those weapons.
Reinhold said although the ballistics report is not yet back, it appears all the victims were killed with the same weapon. Marine Thomas J. Sullivan of Springfield, Massachusetts. Carson Holmquist, 26, of Grantsburg, Wis.; Gunnery Sgt.
Those troops had just returned from a training exercise in California. He then went to a joint Marine-Navy facility about seven miles away. Five didn’t make it. One service member inside the building saw Abdulazeez approaching and fired at him, likely with a personal weapon. It’s unclear if any of the shots struck the gunman.
There is growing speculation that Abdulazeez may have become radicalized while spending time with his uncle in Jordan.
Reinhold also said that authorities believed Abdulazeez, 24, acted alone in Thursday’s shooting of two military sites that killed four Marines and a Navy sailor.
When the shooting started, troops inside the building went room to room to rush their colleagues to safety, said Maj. Then, some rushed back into the fight.
The four Marines have been deployed to Iraq and Afghanistan. “This is a complex, ongoing investigation, and we’re still in the early stages of piecing together exactly what happened and why”, Reinhold said. When he did, Chattanooga officers confronted him, and a shootout broke out. “Capitol’s flag at half-staff today to honor the servicemen killed by a terrorist in Chattanooga”.
“There were a lot of shots fired”, he said.
“I want to tell you, Mohammad is not religious, and is not belonging to any group”, Mr. Khateeb said in an interview with the New York Times in his Amman office Tuesday night.
“At this point we’re treating him as a homegrown violent extremist”, he said.
He was also “very ashamed” about the drunken driving arrest in April and an impending court appearance, the family source said, and may have had difficulty reconciling his drinking and marijuana use with his Muslim faith.
A Jordanian official said Tuesday that he is sure the uncle and “other relevant people” in Jordan were being questioned, but he would not elaborate and or confirm that the uncle was detained.
Reinhold said investigators had heard the same reports and were looking into them.
Once inside, Abdulazeez managed to kill one service member.
Two young men are holding a vigil of sorts outside the Armed Forces Career Center in Chattanooga.
The Federal Bureau of Investigation has dispatched investigators to Jordan to look into what influences he may have come under while he was in the country.
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In Maryland, Governor Larry Hogan has ordered a review of security at recruitment centers, and said: “The majority of Maryland National Guard facilities are secure locations that, in some instances, are protected by armed personnel”. In Ohio and many states, it is legal to carry an openly displayed handgun or rifle.
