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At least four people were killed Thursday when a gunman attacked two military facilities in Chattanooga, Tennessee, and the suspected shooter was also killed, the city’s mayor Andy Berke confirmed.
An unnamed official said that the deceased included four marines, and that the attacker acted alone. The suspected gunman has been named as 24-year-old Mohammad Youssuf Abdulazeez.
Berke told a press conference that the shootings were a “nightmare for the city,” while U.S. attorney Bill Killian added that the bloodshed was an “act of domestic terrorism.”
The motive is still under investigation and a FBI special agent told reporters that the agency has “not determined whether it was an act of terrorism or whether it was a criminal act.”
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Clergy knelt next to this sobbing man at the scene of the #ChattanoogaShooting and placed his hand on the man's back. pic.twitter.com/dmT5pwKFcH
— Victor Blackwell CNN (@VictorCNN)
July 16, 2015
This is so moving. No words for the outpouring of love we are seeing at the 1st scene of the #ChattanoogaShooting pic.twitter.com/U7zUiBzAmh
— Hailey Holloway (@HHollowayNews)
July 16, 2015
Events spanned around 30 minutes: the suspected gunman arrived in a silver Ford Mustang convertible and unleashed torrents of bullets at the military recruiting center around 10:45 a.m. local time before heading to a second site seven miles away, an operational support center operated by the U.S. Navy. It was here that the alleged attacker was killed.
"Lives have been lost from some faithful people who have been serving our country, and I think I join all Tennesseans in being both sickened and saddened by this," Tennessee Governor Bill Haslam said.
