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Following the slayings of four Marines and a sailor at two Chattanooga, Tennessee military installations, an Inland congressman has introduced a bill to allow military officers to carry firearms at recruitment centers.

Reinhold and military officials said Abdulazeez’s rampage lasted three to five minutes after he crashed his auto through a security gate, left the vehicle with an assault weapon and a handgun, began firing outside the reserve center and continued shooting once inside.

Authorities did not say whether or not the service member was authorized to carry a weapon at the facility, with Reinhold saying that’s something the military could look into. Abdulazeez then went out the back, and killed two more people outside before being shot dead by Chattanooga police in a firefight exchange of hundreds of bullets. Thomas Sullivan, 40, of Hampden, Mass.; Lance Cpl.

When the shooting started, troops inside the building went from room to room to rush their colleagues to safety, said Maj.

“Once they got them to safety, some willingly ran back into the fight”, he added.

Authorities on Wednesday offered the public a clearer picture of how last week’s shooting in Chattanooga, Tenn. unfolded, providing for the first time an estimated timeline of the tragedy that killed five US troops.

Reinhold said the Federal Bureau of Investigation was treating the gunman as a “homegrown violent extremist”, and he said investigators believe he had no help in executing the attack. “We don’t have any indication anyone else was assisting him”.

Nonetheless, FBI investigators in the U.S. discovered that “Abdulazeez wrote about suicide and martyrdom as long ago as 2013”. Investigators are combing through his electronic communications and his travel history, including a seven-month stay in Jordan past year. Computers and cellphones were taken from the man’s home, but he has not been charged with anything, the attorney said.

Currently, investigation of the shooting has enlisted as many as 700 to 1,000 FBI agents, reports ABC News.

He said most military personnel are not at that level of weapons proficiency.

JULY 21: U.S. President Barack Obama departs the White House en route Andrews Air Force Base via Marine One on July 21, 2015, in Washington, DC. Gen. Paul Brier, commanding general of the 4th Marine Division, said during a press conference on Wednesday.

“We are gathering clues and we need to establish whether this was a sole act or one that is linked to a wider terror network”, the source said.

“We are pursuing that as a possibly but it’s too early to tell”. Crowds gathered at the suburban Atlanta high school to remember the Marine who was fatally shot in an attack on military facilities in Chattanooga, Tenn.

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.

NBC News reported on Tuesday that Abdulazeez downloaded audio recordings of Anwar al-Awlaki, a radical cleric and al Qaeda recruiter killed by an American drone strike in 2011. Shots were fired from at least one, but it’s not yet clear if the gunman was hit by fire from one of those weapons, Reinhold said.