as all the people who knew and described him to be which doesn t fit the profile of a mass killer. let me ask you about the yearbook photo from 2008 of mohammad youssuf abdulazeez and there s a quote next to his photo. it says my name causes national security alerts. what does yours do? apparently to give it context this is a quote somebody who belongs about struggles as a first generation american muslim. i m assuming mohammad youssuf abdulazeez chose this quote to go with his photo. do you know why he chose that? more of a joke than anything else. as people have said before he was a devout muslim but he wasn t radicalized or anything. it s just that it kind of goes along with being a southern kid. growing in the south and having a name like mohammad youssuf
welcome back to cnn newsroom. we continue to follow the breaking news of this shoot ing at two u.s. military facilities that s left four marines dead. the gunman, now identified as 24-year-old mohammad youssuf abdulazeez was killed by police. officials tell us that he was a naturalized u.s. citizen. he was born in kuwait and had jordanian citizenship. a friend said he visited the middle east several years ago but officials haven t found anything to tie him to an international terrorist organization but the investigation continues. president obama is calling on u.s. legislatures to reform america s criminal justice system. his comments came as he met with inmates and law enforcement officers at a federal prison in oklahoma on thursday. mr. obama is making prison reform one of his top domestic priorities before his time in office ends. we have to be able to distinguish between with
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u.s. military sites. at least three other people were wounded in this attack. the terrorism task force is investigating the shooting and authorities are looking in to every avenue to try to determine a motive. u.s. president barack obama reacted earlier to this attack. listen. although the families are still in the process of being contacted, i want them to know that i speak for the american people in expressing our deepest condolences and knowing that they have their they have our full support as they try to overcome the grief that s involved here. authorities named 24-year-old mohammad youssuf abdulazeez as the gunman. you see him here. they have not yet identified the victims. joining us now cnn law enforcement analyst thank you for with being with us. so this happened in chattanooga
is national security alerts. what is yours? cnn s gary tuchman went to the fwlabd it is believed mohammad youssuf abdulazeez spent most of his childhood and has this report. we can tell you this is the house where he spent most of his life. he went to the university of chattanooga where he majored in electrical engineering. it is not clear if he had a job. he had a couple of internships but not clear if he had a job. he was a high school wrestler a mixed martial arts fighter. we are told by his high school wrestling coach he was a very good person. he would pray occasionally ask time off from wrestling to conduct muslim prayers. he was shocked. she was he was a great guy. everyone is stunned in the neighborhood. one of his neighbors two doors away said as far as he knew, he s known him since he was a little kid, he was a normal