after shooting into multiple buildings that are connected to each other which confirms what you are saying because this is like a center or complex situation. source confirmed officer down but not confirming suspect down. that goes along with what the mayor said. horrific horrific scene is how he described it. reporter: that jives with what we are hearing. it takes sense the shooter is allegedly a white male in a silver mustang and essapecaped the scene. that is why you see multiple locations going into lockdown. you have one officer take to know a hospital. that is confirmed. and we know from the navy that this naval operations support
well, i was trying to get the store opened and cut lemons and then i heard loud noises, pow, pow, pow. really loud. i ran to the front of the building to see what was going on and when i looked out i saw this guy in a drop top silver mustang and he was literally ten feet away. they are right next door. he was pulled right in front of the building and opening fire. he had a big, big high-power rifle and he was opening fire on them. on who? who, gina, was he opening fire on? it was the air force marines and navy offices. so, he opened fire on what you say is a group, a group of officers. a group of members there on the base. is that right? i m sorry, i couldn t hear what you were saying. i m so sorry about that. you say he opened fire on a group of people. a group of people that serve in the military. there was nobody outside. but he pulled up outside of the
on in chattanooga, tennessee. one officer is down and at least one person has been injured and we do not know at this hour where that shooter is who pulled up in a silver mustang and started shooting indiscriminately at a reservist center there in chattanooga, tennessee. let me hand it over to my colleague wolf blitzer with more of the breaking news. this is cnn breaking news. hello, we re following breaking news. i m wolf blitzer reporting from washington. we want to welcome our viewers in the united states and around the world. there s breaking news in the state of tennessee. where at least one officer is down after a shooting near a u.s. military reserve center in chattanooga. a local store owner telling cnn that just before 11:00 this morning, she saw a man with a high-powered rifle fire multiple shots from a silver mustang. the gunman apparently targeting a shopping center with multiple military recruiting offices. the city s mayor tweeting out
it was gunshots at first until i came out of the kitchen and i d seen the guy in his car. a silver mustang, a drop top and he had a high-power rifle and not simultaneously but it was pow, pow, pow. he was just firing shots right over here right next door to us and to the air force, navy and marine s office. i don t even know how many shots he fired but it was a lot. it was a lot. just back-to-back and people down the street said they d seen him reload it. he reloaded several times. and then after he got done opening fire, he pulled out real quick. they said he didn t have a tag on his car or anything and then he headed, he pulled out of our parking lot and went towards the amicola center. so, gina, just to back up just one second. so, you saw this shooter? you saw him? you saw the gun? you saw him in his silver mustang, you say. i was standing right here and
i can imagine how frightening it is. tell me about your location and what you saw today. the salon is two doors down from the army recruiting place. we heard one pop really loud pop. so, we went to the door to see what it was and as soon as we got to the door, there was just several other pops after that and we looked down two doors down and we saw a guy in a silver mustang just unloadediinn the naval recruiting place. unloading. was this a, i ask because i believe from our guest before it was a sort of a, was it a car without a top? was it a convertible. yes. it was a convertible. was he standing up and shooting out of it? was he seated? he was just shooting, shooting. he loaded, i think, once or twice. and just kept going until he