NEWS JUL 17 2015, 12:31 AM ET
Chattanooga Gunman Was Not On Terrorism Radar, Officials Say
by PETE WILLIAMS, TRACY CONNOR and PHIL HELSEL
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The gunman who opened fire on two military centers in Chattanooga Thursday, killing four Marines and critically wounding a Navy sailor, was not in any federal terrorism database and was not under investigation before he carried out the rampage, several officials told NBC News.

Mohammad Youssuf Abdulazeez, 24, was killed after a shootout with police during the assault which began at 10:45 a.m. at a Marine recruiting station and ended at a Marine and Naval reserve center seven miles away, where the soldiers were slain, authorities said.

It is unclear if Abdulazeez was killed by police or if he killed himself. Investigators believe he acted alone. Chattanooga Police Chief Fred Fletcher told reporters late Thursday, "I can tell you that the officers of the Chattanooga police department saved many lives today."

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A motive in the attack is also unclear, but officials suspect it may have been ISIS-inspired because of the target of the attack and the timing — the Muslim holy month of Ramadan ends Thursday — but investigators have not confirmed that the attack was inspired by the Islamist terror organization.

Law enforcement officials say there are "other indications" it may have been ISIS-inspired, but they declined to be specific.

"We will explore that option, but at this point, we don't have anything that directly ties him to an international terrorist organization," FBI Special Agent in Charge Edward W. Reinhold told reporters late Thursday.

Thursday evening, law enforcement surrounded a home believed to be connected to Abdulazeez, and two females were seen being placed in handcuffs, The Associated Press reported. Reinhold said they were not arrested, and it is common practice to secure bystanders when conducting searches.

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In this frame from video, law enforcement officers detain a woman as they surround a house in Hixson, Tenn., Thursday, July 16, 2015. A gunman unleashed a barrage of fire at two sites a few miles apart in Chattanooga, killing several, officials said. The attacker was also killed. Alex Sanz / AP
Abdulazeez was born in 1990 in Kuwait, and he was a naturalized U.S. citizen. He lived with his parents, and his father is a Chattanooga city employee.

While Abdulazeez was not under FBI surveillance and was not on any watch list, officials said, his father, who is from Palestine, was briefly investigated several years ago for possible connections to a terror organization. But that investigation was closed, and the father was removed from government watch lists, the officials said.

Abdulazeez was a 2012 graduate of the University of Tennessee in Chattanooga, where he earned a degree in electrical engineering, the university said. He was a student intern at the Tennessee Valley Authority about five years ago, the agency said.

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Abdulazeez briefly signed up with a mixed-martial arts gym after high school, where the gym owner recalled that "Seemed like a normal kid back then."

"I haven't seen him in years, but I'm very shocked that it's him," Jesse Grun, who used to run the Chattanooga Fight Factory, told NBC news Thursday. He spent about six months at the gym, before his parents pulled him out.

Grun described him as a typical teenager. He wasn't especially loud, but wasn't shy, either. "I believe he was still an opened-minded young happy teenager, so something must have changed as he grew into an adult," Grun said.

In his Red Bank High School yearbook, Abdulazeez's senior entry contained this quote: "My name causes national security alerts. What does yours do?"

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It remains to be seen if Abdulazeez was especially religious, but on April 20 of this year he was arrested by Chattanooga police on a DUI charge.

Officers said they smelled marijuana on him, and he appeared intoxicated, NBC station WRBC reported, and he was scheduled to appear in court at the end of July.

Meanwhile, the Council on American-Islamic Relations on Thursday condemned the deadly rampage.

"Such inexcusable acts of violence must be repudiated by Americans of all faiths and backgrounds," CAIR National Executive Director Nihad Awad said. "The American Muslim community stands shoulder to shoulder with our fellow citizens in offering condolences to the loved ones of those killed and injured and in rejecting anyone who would harm our nation's safety and security.

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RIP to the dead.....wish you quick recovery to the injured

Mentally ill......

Religion of pieces.

jcmaiah:
Religion of pieces.

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Religion of peace, indeed.

islam is false already...

Islam the religion of peace!!!
I can see the peace Islam offers at work everywhere.