Continuing coverage: 4 Marines killed in #ChattanoogaShooting
July 16, 2015
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Horror in Chattanooga today---four Marines dead, a soldier and police officer wounded, and a city in chaos.
Five people have died after a lone attacker unleashed a spray of gunfire at two separate military facilities in Chattanooga, Tennessee.
CNN (as well as every other mainstream media outlet) are running live updates:
Four Marines were killed in Thursday's shooting in Chattanooga, Tennessee, a senior defense official told CNN's Barbara Starr. The families of those killed are being notified of their deaths, the official said. The suspected shooter is also dead, Chattanooga Mayor Andy Berke said Investigators "have not determined whether it was an act of terrorism or whether it was a criminal act," FBI special agent in charge Ed Reinhold told reporters. "We are looking at every possible avenue, whether it was terrorism -- whether it was domestic, international -- or whether it was a simple, criminal act." U.S. Attorney Bill Killian earlier told reporters that authorities were treating the shooting as an "act of domestic terrorism."The identity of the shooter has been confirmed:
JUST IN: #ChattanoogaShooting suspect ID'd as Muhammad Youssef Abdulazeez, a naturalized U.S. citizen from Kuwait - @PeteWilliamsNBC
— NBC Nightly News (@NBCNightlyNews) July 16, 2015
BREAKING: Chattanooga shooting suspect identified as Muhammad Youssef Abdulazeez: CBS, citing two law enforcement sources
— Reuters Top News (@Reuters) July 16, 2015