Navy Yard Shooting Updates: A Handy Video, A Handy Confession Letter (electronic), A Change of the Story

by Scott Creighton

The Navy Yard shooting event is wrapping up nicely. The FBI has released a nifty little video showing Aaron skulking down a hallway with a sawed-off shotgun which he graciously holds up right in front of a security camera for us to see. They also have released new information about a letter he conveniently wrote, typed that is, on his computer explaining his reasoning for the shooting.

And oh yeah, the story has changed a bit.

You can see the new CCTV video of Aaron Alexis skulking down a hallway here (or see video at the end of the article).

The video shows a car driving into the parking deck (doesn’t show him parking or getting out of the car), walking through a door presumably to the building where the shooting took place, and  then it switches to a shot of a hallway, what appears to be a back hallway or a service corridor.

Aaron enters “the scene” from below the camera. Stops. Turns back toward the camera so everyone can see his face. And then holds up the shot-gun for an unspecified reason, appearing to check “something” on it, and then he skulks off down the hallway.

He kinda looks like I would expect Dave Chappelle would acting out the scene of an active shooter drill.

He’s not loading it. I don’t even see a bulge in his pockets for the extra rounds of ammo. He could be checking the safety, but I figure he might have done that before walking out of the bathroom into the long hallway carrying a loaded shot-gun.

So what’s he doing?

Here’s an interesting thing:

We are told that Aaron cut off the barrel and the stock of the Remington 870 so he could put it in the bag and carry it into the building undetected (no metal detector and x-ray machine in that building?) yet, if you watch the video of Aaron entering the building, you notice there is no way that shotgun is inside that bag. The bag on his shoulder is shorter than his forearm and that gun certainly isn’t.

Aside from the fact that the video seems rather staged (obviously it doesn’t show the shooting),  the gun simply doesn’t fit in the bag.

Watch the “skulking” video and let me know what you think. Is it a guy walking into a building all “crazed” and looking to go out in a hail of glory or is it a guy ACTING like an active shooter?

They’ve also now got a confession letter of sorts. Not one penned in his handwriting and signed by Aaron Alexis… they “found” one on his computer which also provides the key missing element in the official story: motive

“The clues about Alexis’s mental state and motivations come from inscriptions found on his Remington 870 shotgun and documents found on his electronic devices.

In one document, he wrote: “An ultra low frequency attack is what I’ve been subject to for the last three months, and to be perfectly honest, that is what has driven me to this.” Washington Post

Does it kinda sound like it was written by the same guy who wrote the boat-side confession of last Boston Bomber?

This “confession letter” was apparently found on a diskette in his bag. How nice.

Oh hey! Look at this. A bullet lying right here on the gurney. The WRONG gurney, but here it is, none the less.

The official story has also changed.

He no longer got up on the atrium on the fourth floor and shot people down below. That never happened even though that is what we were told and shown in a nifty animation by John Miller, CBS’s embedded FBI spokesman.

Nifty little animation. Never happened, but very dramatic.

Another change in the official story is now Mr. Alexis didn’t go to the fourth floor where he worked looking to kill his co-workers first. That, like the atrium story, didn’t happen, according to the new narrative.

“The gunman who killed 12 people at the Washington Navy Yard on Monday began his rampage by heading directly to the fourth floor, where he shot people who worked with him, and authorities are investigating whether a workplace issue sparked the killings, according to law enforcement officials and witness accounts.

People in the department where Aaron Alexis was working had concerns about his job performance, and investigators are looking into whether those concerns escalated last week, the officials said.

‘‘He was not doing a very good job, and somebody told him that there was a problem,’’ one law enforcement official said. ‘‘Our belief is that the people who were shot first were people he had issues with where he worked, people he had some sort of a dispute with. After that, it became random. . . . After the first shootings in that office, he moved around and shot people he came upon. They were then targets of opportunity.’’ Washington Post

The official story now is that he didn’t even shoot his co-workers.

“Parlave said that Alexis had a performance issue at work that was addressed Sept. 13 but that there is no indication that Alexis targeted “anyone he worked for or worked with.”

Parlave did not elaborate on the issue and stressed that investigators believe that Alexis fired at random. She said there was no evidence that any single event triggered the attack.” Washington Post

There you are, the new official story of the Navy Yard shooting. Complete with confession diskettes and handy little video clips. Everything neatly wrapped up.

Nothing to see here folks. Move along.

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