what i was told. we got the biographical data. aviation electrician mate third-cla third-class, meaning what? meaning he was a petty officer working on airplanes, electrical systems. like electrician, fixed electrical equipment on ships, presumably? that would be his yeah. originally, home of record, new york city. 34 years old. do we have any idea of possible motive that he may have had in, in doing this mass shooting? you know this is under investigation. whatever motive, whatever, why here, why now? we just have off to wait. all part of the investigation. the navy is investigating together with the fbi, local law enforcement, a whole group of people. now the contracting job he had, do you know what his contracting
police say they have no information, at laeast not yet n a motive. standing by for a news conference by local authorities. authorities describe the potential suspect, they re searching for the second suspect as a black man between the ages of 40 and 50. carrying what s described as a longgun or a rifle. wearing an olive military-style uniform. we are told he is 5 10 , 180 pound or so, with gray, or graying side burns. another man who was kiddconsidea so-called person of interest has been identified and ruled out as a suspect. let s bring in cnn s jake tapper who is here watching what is going on. jake, like everybody here in washington, we woke up this morning, thinking there were going to be a lot of other stories we would be covering not this one. indeed. what s interesting about secretary mavis, secretary of the navy, you were just interviewing. he has actually gone through
this, the fbi seeking information on aaron alexis, deceas deceased. aaron alexis believed to be responsible for the shootings at the washington navy yard. what do you know about this individual? he was active duty? navy? was he in the reserves? a contractor? what can you share with us about aaron alexis? the two things i know that i have been told, about mr. alexis, one is that he was in the ready reserve which is a he doesn t drill. there is no contact day-to-day with the navy. just if there is a general mobilization, he would be one of the ones mobilized. secondly that, in some capacity or another he was a navy contractor. navy contractor. do you know who he was working for, what company or anything lake that? i don t. i believe i do believe he was a navy contractor. he is from fort worth, texas was
there s some other reason why he came here today, but as of now, we know that he s a former navy man. we know that he worked previously with a former contractor. that s what the fbi believes. they re still trying to figure out exactly what brought him here today. we don t know but will be learning more. he s 34 years old. evan, thanks very much. once again, 13 people are confirmed dead in today s horrific mass shooting. it s an ongoing situation that we re following right now. 13 people dead, including the suspected shooter. 12 people or so, we are told, have been injured as well. you will hear a number, a number of stories of what happened during the course of this ordeal earlier in the day. hundreds of workers actually wound up taking cover or fled the scene of the massacre when it was ongoing. they were watching the situation unfold and they heard sirens going off, they heard gunshots, obviously, in the process. if in fact 12 people were shot and killed, another dozen or so
organization, the headquarters organization s large. there s a few thousand people there. but at the navy yard, but 60 or so that worked for me of those, they all got out alive and that was my main focus during the day was just trying to track them down and see where they were. have you confirmed that all those under your command i have either talked to them personally or have gotten voice mail or e-mail or text messages from them saying that they were okay. so captain, tell us about the naval sea systems command building 197 here at the navy yard. what is it all about? what do you guys do there? the naval sea systems command is the navy s organization for the acquisition and maintaining of its ships, submarines and the systems that go on those ships and submarines. it s housed in three buildings on the navy yard. building 197 is the largest of those three. in building 97, you ve got the organizations, like my organization that s primarily in charge of the non-nuclear surface