Here right next to the air force, navy and marines office. I dont even know how many shots he fired but it was a lot. He lifted up his arms like this with a big gun and it was one shot and then endless shots just unloading into the army. Incredibly no one was killed in that attack but it was a different story seven miles away on his final stop. A Navy Operational support center where he rammed into the front gate and then opened fire. Police say he had a seemingly endless amount of ammunition. All four murders happening here. A Police Officer also wounded. The gunman eventually killed in the gunfight. He was Mohammad Youssuf abdulazeez a Chattanooga University grad. You can see him here in the gray army shorts. We were told that he was a devout muslim. Joining me now is victor blackwell. Whats the latest on the investigation . Reporter i can tell you there are fbi agents here on the scene. More than 25 hours now after the rampage began. Two other things. I just had a conversation with
many are joining the ranks of isis pamela. jomana, thank you very much. we have new information coming in about the attack on the recruitment center in chattanooga. a senior defense official telling cnn that several of the marines at that facility were combat veterans and went into combat mode when the shooting began. they ordered everyone to drop to the floor and hustled them out the back. everyone at that location survived. the chattanooga attacks has affected service members and their families across the country, including staff sergeant joey jones. he was wounded in combat and is now an advocate for veterans with a boot campaign. thank you for having me. so you went through that very same recruitment center there in chattanooga and you actually know the community pretty well. is that right? yes. i m from a small town in georgia
something like this or anybody else serves the country, they don t deserve this. skip wells mom issued this statement right here. my son died doing what he loved for the love of his country and his family. and here with more on what we ve learned about the slain marines is cnn senior washington correspondent joe johns. joe? pamela, the full measure of this terrible attack coming into view in the community stretching from the northeast to the midwest all the way down to the southeast. outpouring on social media, church vigils blood donations. yes, we can publicly identify all four of the marines killed in those attacks. they are carson holmquist, thomas sullivan skip wells, david wyatt. the pentagon now releasing the names. and some details gathered by cnn s pentagon correspondent barbara starr that corrects and refines some of the information that we ve been reporting all morning. starting with the last name we were holding out on marine sergeant carson holmquist, 27 years old,