and all intent and purposes it is not easy. what is the cause to carry out this horrific attack? this is the reason the investigators are approaching from a terrorism perspective and a criminal attack. this would have been more likely just one target, but this was two specific targets, both military. it was premeditated. he hired a vehicle and acquired a weapon and considerable ammunition. you talk about the vehicle. the silver mustang he rented. he went from one location where he sprayed bullets to another where he killed four marines. by all accounts sources close to the investigation said he had a harrowing standoff with police before being shot and killed. there was a dui incident this
mohammad youssuf abdulazeez s rampage. he targeted u.s. military personnel at two with locations. this is being investigated as an act of terrorism. this is a sad day for the united states. these service members served their country with pride and they have been the victims of these shootings. shortly before 11:00 a.m. mohammad youssuf abdulazeez pulled out a high powered rifle and opened fire according to witnesses. i seen the guy in the car, silver mustang, and he had a high-powered rifle, it wasn t simultaneously but pow, pow pow. he was firing in to the navy, navy air force, marine office. i don t know how many shots but a lot. the suspect headed to a nearby reserve center seven miles away. there he opened fire killing four marines and wounding three
we have no information that confirms any of that yet. in fact the description coming of the local press of the shooter, we give pause to know that first-hand accounts are normally inaccurate but i was listening to local news in the chattanooga area, and according to them the description of the shooter is a white male in a silver mustang. you heard from harris last hour shepherd smith as well. we ve heard this report that this is the potentially the profile of the shooter but we have no confirmation of that. it does appear there are two locations. you have one location at a navy support center on amnicola highway in the chattanooga area. we have another report of a different shooting on lee highway. that according to local reporters, is at the armed forces center there. you see the city of chattanooga. one of the biggest cities in tennessee. population of just below 200,000 people. right now we know it s all hands
thing. they saw the man sitting in a convertible mustang with a large rifle. backed up and didn t speed away. i mean, is that surprising? you ve covered a lot of, unfortunately, tragic shootings. it s not surprising, frankly. we heard about this and many other shootings where the shooter is just very calm. very, you know, it s sort of diligent, if you will. and sort of has this plan in place. i m going to go and i m going to shoot this target and it s really not surprising. i think deliberate is the word that i m looking for. deliberate. not surprising at all. in fact, i feel more times than not that is the way that they are. yeah. stay with me, pamela, thank you. harry houck on the phone. we re hearing from the mayor there of chattanooga that there is an officer down and we just want to be very careful when reporting this. we don t know officer down and injured or officer down and dead, correct?
live from chattanooga the latest. the federal bureau of investigation, according to the u.s. attorney for the eastern district of tennessee investigating this as an act of domestic terrorism elm. that s not to say what happened but they re investigating it as that. they got clarity as they said they ll work to determine who that s man was described only at a white male in a silver mustang, who shot first from inside the vehicle and at the second scene was on the run. he has been described to news no other way. we don t know if he is former military if he had any attachment think locations and authorities are very clear to say they re going to investigate this and when they do they ll be able to find out whether this is a crime or some act of domestic terrorism, in the meantime they ll investigate it as such. highlights being authorities believe there was one gunman, the gunman acted alone the gunman is now dead. four u.s. marines were also shot and killed. a police officer shot, acco