Family: Tennessee shooter fought depression, substance abuse

Tonight, ABC news is learning new details after those Marines were shot and killed in Tennessee.

Flags stand in a make-shift memorial as people gather at the scene of a military recruiting office in Chattanooga, Tenn., on Monday, July 20, 2015, four days after it was targeted in a pair of shootings that left five people dead.

Gunnery Sgt. Thomas Sullivan of Massachusetts was a two-time Purple Heart recipient. Carson Holmquist, 27.

Governor Steve Bullock (D-MT) has ordered all flags in Montana be flown at half-staff on Tuesday in honor of the USA military members who died in the line of duty last week. He told a Chattanooga officer he was with friends who had been smoking marijuana.

CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. (AP) – Bits and pieces have emerged over the past few days about Muhammad Youssef Abdulazeez’s troubled life.

Associated Press Michael Biesecker in Chattanooga contributed to this report.

Father David Carter, pastor of the basilica, led the prayer service for all the victims of the incident, including the shooter. Squire Wells – three of whom survived combat missions.

The Federal Bureau of Investigation says it has not found any connection to overseas terrorist groups, and any likely motive for Mohammod Abdulazeez’s shooting rampage last week that killed five military personnel is likely related to mental and drug issues. It’s the differences that matter, the background and potential influences that distinguish Abdulazeez from all the other lost 24-year-olds we encounter in our daily lives. “All you have to do is read a history book and see from time to time evil creeps in”, he said. “We can only control our response….” [It] doesn’t mean we have to weave and dodge but maybe our response should be measured….

“Our response should be forgiveness”, as Jesus teaches, Stika said.

Until last Thursday’s shooting, the Kuwait-born 24-year-old was not on the radar of terrorism investigators.

Among the tragedies that have prompted the honor are the 2009 mass shooting at Fort Hood, Texas; the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting in Newtown, Connecticut, in 2012; the 2012 attack on the U.S. Embassy in Benghazi, Libya; the Boston Marathon bombings in 2013; and the 2013 Washington Navy Yard shooting. “Together, we will direct the Pentagon to end the disconnect between the threats our war fighters and their families face and the tools they have to defend themselves”.

“They acted very quickly, they hunkered down and protected one another”, said Abrams, who took command of the artillery unit, Mike Battery of the 3 rd Battalion 14th Marines, in 2013.

“We’re all shocked by the shooting”. In a statement released over the weekend, the family expressed their sympathies and condolences to the families of the victims.

Griffin also told Jake Tapper Petty said Abdulazeez considered ISIS a “stupid group that was violating the laws of Islam”, and also “believes Abdulazeez was a pothead”.

“We condemn this act in the strongest possible terms as one of cowardice and hate”.

With more than 30 agents due to arrive today in Chattanooga, a diary belonging to the gunman and FBI interviews with his parents paint a picture of a disturbed, suicidal young man using drugs, preparing for bankruptcy and facing an appearance in criminal court, according to a representative of the shooter’ s family.

The teen also was found to have an air soft rifle and a pistol, officials told WDEF.