Four Marines Killed in Chattanooga Attack

Shooter identified

A U.S. official speaking on condition of anonymity identified the gunman as 24-year-old Muhammad Youssef Abdulazeez of Hixton, Tennessee, and said he was believed to have been born in Kuwait, though it was unclear whether he was a U.S. or Kuwaiti citizen.

LIVE UPDATES: Four soldiers killed in Chattanooga attacks
Two military centers attacked by unknown gunmen
Times Free Press
by Staff Report
July 16th, 2015

Reports: Four Marines killed in Chattanooga attacks 
Clarion Ledger
Therese Apel
1:30 p.m. CDT July 16, 2015
UPDATE 1:15 p.m.

Chattanooga Times Free Press is reporting four Marines killed in the Chattanooga attacks.

UPDATE 12:59 p.m.

NBC has confirmed the shooter is dead, according to WBIR in Chattanooga. Press conference should start shortly.

Lockdown has been lifted at Erlanger Hospital.

UPDATE 12:52 p.m.

WBIR's Josh Rhoden spoke with a woman who was on her way into a hair salon next to one of the shooting sites and saw the gunman. She said the man got out of his car and started firing shots at the recruiting office.

The injured police officer is undergoing surgery now.

The police officer was shot at the U.S. Marine Reserve Center near the Tennessee River Park. There has also been a shooting on Lee Highway, which is the Armed Forces Career Center, according to WRCB-3 in Chattanooga. It appears the incidents may have started there, they said. Another person has been shot in the leg, and at least two more may be injured, reports say.

The FBI and the ATF are on the scene at Amnicola Highway, as well as a bomb squad, according to radio traffic.
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