US Attorney: Tenn. Military Shooting Being Treated As Terrorism

A couple comfort each other by a makeshift memorial outside the Armed Forces Career Center on Friday, July 17, 2015, in Chattanooga, Tenn. Counterterrorism investigators are trying to figure out why a 24-year-old Kuw... A couple comfort each other by a makeshift memorial outside the Armed Forces Career Center on Friday, July 17, 2015, in Chattanooga, Tenn. Counterterrorism investigators are trying to figure out why a 24-year-old Kuwait-born man, who by accounts lived a typical life in suburban America, attacked the career center and a Navy-Marine training center a few miles away in a shooting rampage that killed four Marines. (AP Photo/Mark Zaleski) MORE LESS

CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. (AP) — The U.S. Attorney in eastern Tennessee says the attacks on two military facilities in Tennessee is being treated as a terrorism investigation.

Bill Killian, the U.S. Attorney for the eastern district of Tennessee, said Thursday that the probe is being led by the FBI. Killian says investigators will “let the facts and the evidence lead us where it may.”

The police chief in Chattanooga says officers in the city dragged a wounded colleague to safety during a gunfight with the man who killed four Marines in an attack on two military sites.

Chief Fred Fletcher called the officers heroes for their actions and said Thursday during a news conference that their actions prevented an additional loss of life.

The gunman, who also died in the attack, has been identified by authorities as 24-year-old Muhammad Youssef Abdulazeez.

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  1. Scary name: Terrorism
    White boy’s name: Not Terrorism

    I know, that’s callous, but it’s almost always true.

  2. I’s say the time in Yemen might be a good reason for that, sounds like that needs to be looked at.

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