“Carson Holmquist from Grantsburg, Wisconsin, follow similar deadly attacks at Washington, D.C.’s Navy Yard and Fort Hood, Texas”.
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Meanwhile, Gov. Scott Walker is ordering that flags be lowered to half-staff in honor of Holmquist.
Holmquist’s Facebook page indicates he was living in Jacksonville, North Carolina.
On Thursday, Holmquist, 25, was killed in a shooting at a military facility in Chattanooga, Tenn., one of four Marines slain by 24-year-old Mohammad Youssef Abdulazeez. Holmquist began active duty in the Marine Corps the following year.
According to the Marine Corps, Holmquist, who was trained as an automotive technician, was deployed to Afghanistan from September 2013 to May 2014.
“To lose one of your own it’s very real and a lot of people hurting in our community today”, Watt said. Watt said the last time he saw Holmquist was when he visited his alma mater around 2009 in his formal dress uniform.
The school has placed his photograph on their Wall of Honor. They are listed as Gunnery Sgt. Thomas J. Sullivan of Hampden, Massachusetts; Staff Sgt. David A. Wyatt of Burke, NC.
A sailor was critically wounded, another Marine suffered a leg injury, and a Chattanooga police officer was shot in the ankle.
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He survived two tours in Afghanistan only to be killed during the rampage at a military training center in Tennessee Thursday. Authorities have not said how Abdulazeez died. The governor’s order says the flags will remain lowered until sunset on the day of the marine’s funeral.
