center here about 15 miles away where he did enter the facility exited his vehicle and engaged in gunfire, there. is there an indication there is anyone else involved in this? there is no indication anyone else was involved we re at the beginning of the investigation and will explore any possibility, including whether or not anyone else was involved in this. we will not release the names of the marines, it is our policy we will not release names of the victims at all the department of defense will have to make that determination as to whether or not they want to release the names of the marines. the chattanooga police department has been requested that officer s name not be released and we ll honor that.
tonight. as we close out this portion we want to answer whatever questions that we have and i ll bring up ed rhinehold for the fbi. he s likely to have the answers about the investigation. questions? yeswe have no idea what his motivation was behind this shooting. we re just beginning this investigation we ll explore the option but at this point we don t have anything that directly ties him to an international terrorist organization. i can t speculate on what his motivation would have been or what or any afillation he may have. i m not going to discuss that part of investigation.
. back of the book segment. let s bring in bret baier who like us has been watching this tennessee situation all day long. the investigation s still ongoing, but u.s. officials are now leaning toward abdul asooes not being directly told to pull off this attack but that he was inspired. they point to a social media post where he says he s ready for jihad. they also say the time being fall falls into the last davey of ramadan. and the targets themselves. the military targets being something that isis has called for in social media posts. so they are leaning towards inspired by but not directed by
we re at the beginning of the investigation with three active crime scenes we re investigating. it s going to be a long night for our folks we ll be processing just the crime scenes we continue to cover every lead and i ask the public if you have information to contact us. if you have information, contact us or contact the local police department who will then provide that information to us. [ question not intelligible ] we are checking every place
he s doing as well as can be expected after being shot by a brazen criminal such as this. [ question unintelligible ] he entered meaning inside of the gate. so we re still investigating that as a possibility. he had several weapons and that is potential evidence for future prosecution. sir, what can you tell us about the hixon investigation. the residence here in the process of searching to see if there is evidence connected to this investigation. nobody else has been taken into custody. it s a common practice for us