Chattanooga Shooting Suspect’s Family Offers Condolences In Statement

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So proud a Marine was Holmquist, that when he finished boot camp, he returned to his hometown and paid a visit to his high school dressed in his formal blues, according to WSB-TV. While we can sympathize with the FBI’s dilemma in deciding who to keep track of, this attack points up the need for the FBI to do a better job.

Federal Bureau of Investigation spokesman Jason Pack declined to comment on whether investigators were pursuing mental health records for Abdulazeez.

There was also evidence that he came from a troubled family.

House Majority Leader Gerald McCormick, an Army veteran of the first Persian Gulf conflict, told The Associated Press that he hopes something can be done to “make sure that these folks are able to protect themselves”.

The suspect’s friend said he thought nothing of the text message at the time, but now wonders if it was a clue to Thursday’s rampage in Chattanooga, which has re-ignited concerns about the radicalisation of young Muslim men. Residents in the quiet neighborhood where he is believed to have lived said they didn’t know him or his family well.

A US official who was not authorized to discuss the case and spoke on condition of anonymity said Abdulazeez was in Jordan previous year for months, and those travels and anyone he met with are being looked at. “He never became close to me like he was before he went overseas….”

Bilal Sheikh, 25, said he had known Abdulazeez since they were teenagers, and they often played basketball together.

Three people were wounded, including a sailor who died on Saturday.

As reported in a Reuters exclusive, the text said the following. He described his existence as a “prison” of monotony and routine.

The officer also wrote that he noticed “a white powdery substance” under Abdulazeez’s nostrils, and that he appeared unsteady attempting to stand. A sign on the door Friday encouraged visitors to go to the memorial service instead.

The message emerged as a male US Navy petty officer died of wounds sustained in the shooting in Chattanooga, Tennessee, the US Navy said, raising the number of people killed in the attack to five.

Kingery said funeral arrangements for Wells are still pending.

Investigators will try to establish if he was part of an organisation or the latest “lone wolf” militant, radicalised U.S. Muslims acting on their own who President Barack Obama has said pose a greater risk to the country than a large-scale operation.

“He learned a lot about the traditions and culture of the Middle East”, said the friend, adding that Abdulazeez was upset about Israeli bombing in Gaza in 2014 and Syrian civil war.

His son attended high school in a Chattanooga suburb and graduated from the University of Tennessee in 2012 with an engineering degree.

Wrestling is an intense sport and participants have to “be able to turn it on and turn it off”, Emily said, but Abdulazeez had an unusually calm demeanor.

Ashley Montgomery, whose husband is a Navy sailor, pays her respects at a memorial set up in front of the Armed Forces Career Centre/National Guard Recruitment Office, which had been shot up on Thursday.

Whatever the motive, it’s clear that four families are hurting badly, as is the community at large.

The Defense Department generally prohibits servicemembers from carrying private concealed weapons on U.S. bases and only allows certain people, mainly military police and sentries, to carry weapons at all.

The Army’s top officer says security at military recruiting and reserve centers will be reviewed, but it’s too early to say whether the facilities should have security guards or other increased protection.

Scott announced the order Saturday.

Authorities are still trying to piece together why Mohammad Youssuf Abdulazeez killed four Marines at a Navy operational center in the southeastern Tennessee city, which is thousands of miles from any war zone but unfortunately not bloodshed.

Four U.S. Marines were killed on Thursday by a gunman who opened fire at two military offices in Chattanooga, before being fatally shot in an attack officials called a brazen act of domestic terrorism.