July 22, 2015


An investigator walks by the entrance of a Navy and Marine center in Chattanooga, Tenn., on Wednesday, July 22, 2015. Law enforcement officials for the first time provided details about how Muhammad Youssef Abdulazeez crashed the gates with his car and opened fire on the service members inspecting equipment there, killing four Marines and one sailor.

CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. (AP) — Twenty Marines and two Navy corpsmen were in the middle of an otherwise mundane task, just checking their equipment after a training mission, when the silver Mustang convertible came barreling through the gates of the reserve center on the banks of the Tennessee River.

The driver blasted his way through that facility for the next three to five minutes, officials said during a Wednesday news conference that provided the most complete account yet of how four Marines and a sailor were killed. The shooter's motives remain unclear to investigators, even nearly a week later.

Muhammad Abdulazeez made his first stop at a military recruiting office about 7 miles away, sending recruiters there scrambling for cover from the hail of gunfire that left the front windows pocked with bullet holes. Abdulazeez never left the driver's seat, staying only briefly before moving to his next target.

After plowing his rented car through the gates, and with Chattanooga Police chasing close behind, the gunman got out of the car and stormed into the building. He was ready for a shootout: Abdulazeez wore a vest with extra ammunition. One gun was found in his vehicle; an assault rifle and a handgun were found on him.

A service member inside the building saw Abdulazeez approaching and fired at him. The gunman shot back and then proceeded inside. Once inside, he fatally wounded Petty Officer 2nd Class Randall Smith and "continued to shoot those he encountered," FBI Knoxville Special Agent in Charge Ed Reinhold said at a news conference.

As police followed the gunshots, he then walked out the back door into a gated motor pool area, where troops tried to scramble over a fence to safety. It was there that the remaining four were killed: Staff Sgt. David Wyatt, Sgt. Carson Holmquist, Gunnery Sgt. Thomas Sullivan and Lance Cpl. Squire Wells.

When the shooting first started, troops inside the building went room to room to rush their colleagues to safety, said Maj. Gen. Paul W. Brier, commanding general of the 4th Marine Division. Then, some rushed back into the fight.

Two guns belonging to service members were recovered at the scene, he said; shots were fired from at least one. It's unclear if the gunman was hit by one of those weapons, Reinhold said. The military will investigate whether the service members were authorized to have those weapons.

t is too early to determine whether Abdulazeez was "radicalized" before the attacks, Reinhold said. But when asked if Abdulazeez acted alone, Reinhold said he was currently being treated as a "homegrown violent extremist."

holy Crap!
People are being shot at and killed and those Morons have nothing better to do than to investigate whether the Service Members were authorized to have those Weapons!
Blow me down!


http://politistick.com/msnbc-hack-desperately-searches-for-another-narrative-questions-if-chattanooga-shooter-was-into-guns/


http://allenwestrepublic.com/2015/07/21/chattanooga-shooters-uncle-detained-in-jordan/

I thought the same dam thing.

In the world of political correctness, we are not allowed to presume that because Abdulazeez was Muslim, his religion is likely to have been his motivation but we are allowed to presume that because the crime occurred in Tennessee, he must have been engaged in huntin, fishin and the backwoods life.

Political correctness will be the death of our Nation.

This isn't p.c. motivation, it's an Officer telling several other lower ranking Officers that they want answers to any and every possible question related to the incident. Add Nationwide attention, potential collateral damage to American civilians, Police or not, they're going to be fires lit under lots of a55es. I seriously doubt anyone believes the weapons were not drawn or fired in self defense, though they will ask.