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    Aaron Alexis Washington Navy Yard Shooter

    Police say three shooters, including at least one in fatigues, have shot at least 10 people at the Washington Navy Yard on Monday.

    Police said at least one of the shooters is “down,” but it was unclear whether that means the suspect has been arrested or shot. Two remain at large, and police believe they have pinned down one between the third and fourth floors of one of the buildings on the installation in Southeast Washington.

    As hundreds of police officers from various agencies converged on the scene, officials at Reagan National Airport ordered all outgoing flights held.

    Police on the scene said at least eight civilians were shot, along with the two police officers. One is a D.C. Metro Police officer who was shot two times in the leg and was evacuated on a helicopter that took off from a rooftop, police said. The other officer worked at the base. Except for the officer who was taken away by helicopter, all the other injured were being treated on the ground, police said.

    A Navy Yard employee reached by telephone shortly before 10 a.m. said employees are still being told to shelter in place. She did not hear the shots, but described sirens, SWAT teams, Marines and a helicopter responding.

    The U.S. Navy said that three shots were fired around 8:20 a.m. at the Naval Sea Systems Command Headquarters building, where about 3,000 people work.

    Police closed the 11th St Bridge as well as M St SE between 2nd and 4th streets SE due to the shooting. Entrances to the Navy Yard Metro station remain open.

    U.S. Capitol Police confirmed enhanced security at the Capitol, but no immediate threat.

    Tyler Elementary School at 10th and G streets in Southeast is on lockdown.

    As helicopters circled overhead and emergency vehicles continued to rush to the scene, crowds of onlookers gathered on sidewalks and at a construction site near the Navy Yard, but police pushed them back, yelling at them to keep a distance from the grounds.

    One employee who declined to give his name said he heard “blam, blam” inside one of the buildings, then someone pulled the fire alarm.

    “We aren’t going back on base today,” he said. “[But] there are still people inside.”

    Reports began circulating around 9:30 a.m. that the suspect was “down,” but D.C. police said the suspect is still on the loose and “hiding between floors.”

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    Navy official says 4 fatalities reported at Navy Yard

    A U.S. Navy spokesman says that four people have been killed in the shooting rampage at the Washington Navy Yard. Ed Buclatin, the public affairs chief for the Navy Installations Command, tweeted "four killed and eight injured." Follow our liveblog for updates.

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    At least 7 dead in shooting at Navy Yard, officials say

    Officials said at least seven people are dead in Monday's shooting at the Washington Navy Yard. D.C. Police Chief Cathy Lanier said in a midday news conference that one of the suspected gunmen is dead, while authorities are looking for two other possible suspects wearing military-style clothing.

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    12 confirmed DEAD and it could go higher!

    I know it's not realistic but America SHOULD follow the lead of the UK and Australia and BAN guns! Both those nations have had ZERO mass shootings since their gun bans!

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    BREAKING NEWS UPDATE: Police have cleared one of two people they were looking for in connection with the shooting at the Washington Navy Yard. "The white male in the tan outfit has been identified and is not a suspect or person of interest," Metropolitan D.C. Police tweeted Monday afternoon.

    Twelve people were killed Monday after at least one shooter opened fire in a rampage at a Navy yard in the nation's capital, putting government buildings on lockdown and sending police SWAT teams rushing to the scene.

    One suspect is dead, but two other gunmen may be on the loose, Washington Police Chief Cathy Lanier said.

    "Right now we have multiple pieces of information to suggest that we had at least two other people seen with firearms. ... These are people that we believe are involved in some way," Lanier said. She declined to provide specifics about why authorities believe they were involved.

    Authorities are looking for a white man and a black man in military-style clothing who could be connected to the shooting.

    A dozen people are confirmed dead after the shooting at the Washington Navy Yard, Lanier said, and others are injured.

    Who opened fire at the headquarters for Naval Sea Systems Command -- and why -- remains unclear.

    "We still don't know all the facts. But we do know that several people have been shot and some have been killed," President Barack Obama said earlier Monday afternoon. "So we are confronting yet another mass shooting. And today it happened on a military installation in our nation's capital."

    Obama called the shooting a "cowardly act" that targeted military and civilians serving their country.

    "They know the dangers of serving abroad," he said, "but today they faced the unimaginable violence that we wouldn't have expected here at home."

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    Aaron Alexis, possible shooter

    Court records show @fortworthpd arrested Aaron Alexis in 2010 for discharging gun. PD filed with @tarrantda but DA didn't charge him@NBCDFW
    — ScottGordonNBC5 (@ScottGordonNBC5) September 16, 2013

    BREAKING: Alleged shooter at Washington Navy yard is Aaron Alexis, 34, of Fort Worth. Arrested by FWPD in 2010 for discharging gun @NBCDFW
    — ScottGordonNBC5 (@ScottGordonNBC5) September 16, 2013



    These images released by the FBI show photos of Aaron Alexis, who police believe was a gunman at the Washington Navy Yard shooting in Washington, Monday morning, Sept. 16, 2013, and who was killed after he fired on a police officer. At least one gunman launched an attack inside the Washington Navy Yard, spraying gunfire on office workers in the cafeteria and in the hallways at the heavily secured military installation in the heart of the nation's capital, authorities said. The photo at left is from 2011. (AP Photo/FBI)

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    Suspected U.S. shooter discharged from Navy after misconduct

    (Reuters) - Aaron Alexis, the 34-year-old suspected shooter behind Monday's rampage at the U.S. Navy Yard in Washington, received a general discharge from the Navy Reserve in 2011 after a series of misconduct issues, a Navy official said.

    The official, when asked by Reuters, declined to detail the types of misconduct in Alexis' record. The official spoke on condition of anonymity.

    http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/...98F0YY20130916

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    Anger-management issues

    The dead gunman in Monday’s shooting at the Washington Navy Yard is Aaron Alexis, 34, a native of New York City who was discharged from the Navy in 2011 after he was arrested in a shooting incident, an FBI official said Monday afternoon.

    Police say it is still unclear if Alexis acted alone on Monday, or how he accessed the tightly guarded Navy Yard. Navy Secretary Ray Mabus said that Alexis was a Navy contractor “at one point” since his discharge from the military service. But it was unclear if Alexis was still a contractor at the time of the shooting, Mabus said in an interview with CNN.

    Alexis died at the scene of Monday’s shooting, in which at least 12 other people died. D.C. Mayor Vincent C. Gray said no motive is known. As of Monday evening, authorities also are still searching for another person: a black man in his 40s with gray sideburns, wearing an olive-drab military-style uniform.

    FBI Assistant Director Valerie Parlave asked the public to call 1-800-CALL-FBI with any information about Alexis: “No piece of information is too small. We are looking to learn everything we can about his recent movements.”

    By Monday afternoon, a portrait of Alexis had begun to emerge. He lived until recently in Fort Worth, where he was seen frequently at a Buddhist temple, meditating and helping out.

    But Alexis also had been accused in at least two prior shooting incidents, one in Fort Worth and one in Seattle, according to police reports.

    In 2004 in Seattle, Alexis allegedly used a Glock pistol to shoot out the tires of a car belonging to a construction worker. Alexis said that he had experienced a “’black-out’ fueled by anger” and that he did not remember pulling the trigger until an hour later. No one was injured. Police said that Alexis told them he believed the worker had “mocked him” earlier that day.

    Documents posted by Seattle police said Alexis said he had “been present” at one of the scenes of the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks. “Those events disturbed him,” the police documents said. Alexis’ father told police that his son had anger-management problems, and blamed his experience as an “active participant in rescue attempts” after the terrorist attacks.

    Alexis was charged with property damage and the discharge of a firearm. The Seattle Times reported that the charges were later dismissed.

    In 2010 in Fort Worth, Alexis was arrested for illegally discharging a firearm, a misdemeanor offense. A Fort Worth Police report said police had been dispatched to Alexis’ apartment complex about 6:40 p.m. Sept. 4, 2010, on a report that someone had fired a shot through the floor and into the ceiling of a woman’s apartment.

    Police found that Alexis had fired a shot through the ceiling of his apartment, missing his upstairs neighbor by a few feet. Alexis later said his gun had gone off while he was cleaning it, the paper said.

    The Tarrant County Criminal District Attorney decided that Alexis was telling the truth about the gun-cleaning accident, and declined to pursue the case.

    “After reviewing the facts presented by the police department, it was determined that the elements constituting recklessness under Texas law were not present and a case was not filed,” the D.A.’s office said in a statement Monday.

    But the case still helped end Alexis’ Navy career.

    A Navy official, speaking on condition of anonymity, said Alexis was discharged from the service in January 2011 for “misconduct,” and that the 2010 firearms incident in Texas played a role in his departure.

    In Fort Worth, Alexis had become a familiar, if unusual, figure at a Buddhist temple.

    At the Wat Busayadhammavanaram Meditation Center there, Alexis came to meditate twice a week. But he still seemed so tightly wound that at least one worker there sought to avoid him.

    “He would help people if they came in carrying heavy things,” said J. Sirun, an assistant to the monks at the center. “From the outside, he was a quiet person. But on the inside, I think he was very aggressive. He did not like to be close with anybody, like a soldier who has been at war.”

    Alexis spoke Thai, the language of many other temple worshippers, and also worked as a waiter at a Thai restaurant. One acquaintance said Alexis had recently traveled to Thailand for a month.

    “He understood about 75 percent of the language,” Sirun said.

    “I didn’t think he could be this violent,” Sirun said. “I would not have been surprised to hear he had committed suicide. But I didn’t think he could commit murder.”

    Somsak Srisan, who also frequented the temple, learned that Alexis needed a place to stay. He offered to rent him a two-bedroom white bungalow behind the temple. Srisan said Alexis lived there for a year and didn’t smoke, didn’t drink, and never missed a payment on his $600 a month rent.

    Srisan said Alexis had moved out of the house at least several months ago, although he wasn’t sure if he had left the Fort Worth area. Srisan said he doesn’t know why Alexis left his job at the base. They spoke about it only once, and it was a brief conversation, he said.

    “I asked him, ‘Why you quit the job with the government?” Srisan said, speaking broken English. “He said somebody doesn’t like me.”

    Srisan said he didn’t ask Alexis any more questions because, “I don’t want to go too deep with him.”

    Military personnel records show that Alexis spent nearly four years in the Navy as a full-time reservist from May 2007 until he was discharged in January 2011, according to a summary of his personnel records released by Navy officials at the Pentagon.

    Those Navy officials said they were still researching whether Alexis had been employed more recently as a defense contractor or a civilian employee of the Navy, and were uncertain if he was assigned to work at the Navy Yard.

    Police are investigating whether the identification of former Navy petty officer Rollie Chance was used by Alexis to enter the Navy Yard compound. An ID belonging to Chance was found near the body of Alexis.

    Federal investigators visited Chance’s home Monday. A relative of Rollie Chance said in a telephone interview that Chance, from Stafford, Va., was not at the Navy Yard and was neither a witness nor a suspect and asked the media to leave the family alone.

    In the Navy, Alexis achieved his final rank of Aviation Electrician’s Mate 3rd Class in December 2009.

    Alexis was assigned to the Fleet Logistics Support Squadron 46 at Naval Air Station Fort Worth in Texas for the bulk of his time in the military, from 2008 until he left the service in 2011, records show. He was awarded the Global War on Terrorism Service Medal and the National Defense Service Medal— two common awards for military personnel.

    Meanwhile, a relative of Alexis said she hadn’t seen him in several years.

    “We haven’t seen him for years,” said Helen Weekes of her nephew in a telephone interview. “I know he was in the military. He served abroad. I think he was doing some kind of computer work.” Weekes, who lives in Seattle, said that Alexis had grown up in New York, including in Brooklyn and Queens.

    Weekes said she was receiving constant media calls Monday afternoon in which reporters asked her if she knew if Alexis had been involved in a shooting in Washington, D.C. She said she had not been contacted by police.

    “I’d be shocked if it was him, but I don’t know,” she said, her voice trailing off.

    Monday, as word spread about the shooting, many members of the Wat Busayadhammavanaram community gathered at the temple to discuss what happened.

    “They don’t believed it that he could kills 12 people like that,” Srisan said.

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    Seven of 12 victims in Navy Yard shooting identified

    Shots were fired Monday at a Washington Navy Yard building, killing at least 12 people and injuring 14 others, according to local officials and the Navy.

    Also killed was a suspect, Aaron Alexis, a 34-year-old military information-technology contractor and former full-time Navy reservist who lived in Texas, the FBI said. One other gunman may be on the loose, police said.

    The incident began about 8:20 a.m. ET when several shots were fired inside the Naval Sea Systems Command headquarters in the southeast portion of the capital. Developments below:

    Police released the names and ages of seven of the 12 people killed in the shooting. None of the seven was military personnel:

    – Michael Arnold, 59
    – Sylvia Frasier, 53
    – Kathy Gaarde, 62
    – John Roger Johnson, 73
    – Frank Kohler, 50
    – Kenneth Bernard Proctor, 46
    – Vishnu Pandit, 61.

    Witness: People pushed their way out of building

    The violence started unfolding at 8:20 a.m. when several shots were fired inside the southeast Washington facility.

    Police spokesman Chris Kelly soon described a suspect as an adult male, about 6 feet tall with a bald head and medium complexion, dressed in a black top and black jeans.

    He was armed with an AR-15, which is a semi-automatic rifle; another rifle and a semi-automatic Glock handgun, according to a law enforcement official.

    Two witnesses told CNN affiliate WJLA-TV that they heard a fire alarm go off in the building where they worked, then saw a man with a rifle down the hallway as they exited the building.

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    Quote Originally Posted by TheKindExecutioner View Post
    I know it's not realistic but America SHOULD follow the lead of the UK and Australia and BAN guns! Both those nations have had ZERO mass shootings since their gun bans!
    It would be enough if people like him who showed at least 2 times that they can´t handle a gun with the necessary responsibility have no legal access to guns. I´m curious if he had a license for firearms.
    No murder can be so cruel that there are not still useful imbeciles who do gloss over the murderer and apologize.

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