Tonight were there as doctors scramble to save his life. Nightline will be right back. Female announcer get three years interestfree financing on brand name mattress sets. Plus, get free delivery, and sleep trains 100day low price guarantee. Sleep trains interest free for 3 event is ending soon. Your ticket to a better nights sleep good evening. We begin with the breaking news out of chattanooga. The shooting deaths of four marines. Federal Officials Say theyre treating this as a terror attack. Tonight what were learning about the gunman and his backdprourchdback s background and how the city is dealing with this trauma. Abcs Senior National correspondent jim avila has our report on the marines targeted. An act of domestic terrorism. [ gunfire ] reporter the crackle of gunfire from a deadly rampage in chattanooga, tennessee. Where a lone shooter killed four marines in a hail of bullets, injuring at least three more. Today is a nightmare for the city of chattanooga. Reporter the harrowi
times free press, the newspaper that has owned this story from the very beginning, we received this just a moment ago. a woman who attended red bank high school a local high school there in the area with abdulazeez and he went to high school in the area. and this woman attended school with him. she said he was a quiet kid and well liked. i m quoting now. he was a friendly funny he was friendly funny kind. said kagan wagner to the newspaper. quoting i never would have thought it would it would be him. that s a quote. i never would have thought it would have been him. she added that the family seemed normal. quoting again, they were your average chattanooga family. unquote. that of this man now identified by authorities to us as muhammad youssef abdulazeez born in kuwait in 1990. clearly, a high school student in chattanooga.
tennessee. considered a suburb of chattanooga. there were two shooting scenes. the first one about ten minutes to 11:00 there eastern time at the recruiting center where five military branches have offices. the shooter pulled up in a vehicle, stopped and opened fire. one woman said he was pulling up to a salon or she was and she saw the gunman. told a friend to go back inside. initially, i saw her coming to the door and i was telling her to go back and so and i just pulled off trying not to i know he had saw me and i didn t want to be hit and pulled off and then i tried to go around back where i saw some people escaping from the back of the building to see if you know she would be coming out through the back. what was the scene like? it was it was a regular day. i mean he just pulled up and i didn t think anything of it. he had the drop top and looked to the side and then lifted up the arms with a big, black gun and just it was one shot and then it was just endles