NAVY SHOOTING UPDATES: Suspect 'Secret Clearance,' 13 Dead Including Navy Reservist Gunman

He was discharged from the Navy Reserve in 2011 for a series of misconduct issues, a Navy official said, yet was then assigned to work at the Washington Navy Yard as a civilian contractor with a military-issued ID card, according to his firm’s chief executive. (Reuters)

On Monday night, officials identified seven of the 13 victims killed: (13 including the suspect)

 

– Michael Arnold, 59

– Sylvia Frasier, 53

– Kathy Gaarde, 62

– John Roger Johnson, 73

– Frank Kohler, 50

– Vishnu Pandit, 61

– Kenneth Bernard Proctor, 46

 

Authorities will name the other five after notifying family members.

Military personnel records show Alexis spent nearly four years in the Navy as a full-time reservist, from May 2007 until discharged in January 2011, according to a summary of his personnel records released by Navy officials at the Pentagon.

 

“Those Navy officials said they were still researching whether Alexis had been employed as a defense contractor or a civilian employee of the Navy, and were uncertain if he was assigned to work at the Navy Yard.”

 

(They should ask all-knowing NSA, right?)

 

Officials claim not immediately knowing the reasons for his discharge.

A family member says she had not heard from him in years.

On Saturday 09-04-10 at approximately 1849 hrs I, Officer M Medders 3835 working W237, was dispatched to an apt complex, Orion at Oak Hill Apts, at 2450 Oak Hill Rd in reference to a shots fired call. The details of the call stated “CP STS SHE HEARD A ‘POP’  & SAW SMOKE & DUST; NOW SEES THAT THERE IS A HOLE IN HER FLOOR & ANOTHER IN HER CEILING; BELIEVES SOMEONE JUST SHOT INTO HER APT; DID NOT SEE ANYTHING OR ANYONE; CP HAS MOVED AWAY FROM AREA WHERE HOLES ARE; CONTACT CP”. Upon arrival I met with the witness who was inside her apt and visibly shaken up.

 

She told that she was sitting in a chair when she heard the loud pop and saw the dust. She then saw that their was a hole in her floor just a couple of feet from where she was sitting while shredding papers and a hole in the ceiling. She told me that she believed someone had shot a bullet through her apt. She then told me that no one from downstairs had come up to talk to her and she had not gone down. She also told me that her downstairs neighbor ARR (Alexis,Aaron) has called the police several times on her for being loud however the police always said they didn’t hear anything and no action was taken. She said that several days ago Aaron confronted her in the parking lot about making too much noise. June told me that she is terrified of Aaron and feels that this was done intentionally. I then relocated to apt and attempted to make contact with Aaron 3 separate times by knocking on his door and I received no response.

 

Due to the fact that someone could be hurt I called FD for a possible forced entry however when FD arrived Aaron came outside on his own. I made contact with Aaron who informed me that he did have a gun and he said that he was cleaning it when it went off. He said that he was trying to clean his gun while cooking and that his hands were slippery. He told me that he began to take the gun apart when his hands slipped and pulled the trigger discharging a round into the ceiling. He said he was sitting on the floor facing toward the large couch in his living room. When asked why he didn’t call police or go check on the resident above him, Aaron said that he didn’t think it went all the way through since he couldn’t see any light through the hole. In regards to the noise he said he thought that people would just think it was a firecracker. I then asked why he wouldn’t answer the door when I knocked and he said that he thought it was just his upstairs neighbor and he didn’t want to talk to her because she is always making noise. While inside the apt I looked at the gun which was taken apart at this time. A gun cleaning kit was located next to the gun and the gun was covered in oil.

 

After investigating the situation, Aaron was taken to 350 W. Belknap and booked. A report was generated.

The woman, whose name is unlisted in a Fort Worth Police Department report, said she was “terrified” of Alexis, who had previously confronted her about making too much noise.

 

The woman, “visibly shaken” when questioned by police, said she believed the shooting was “intentional.”

 

When police confronted Alexis, (pictured below) he claimed that he was cleaning the weapon when it discharged. Alexis said he was cooking at the time and his hands were slippery as he “began to take the gun apart when his hands slipped and pulled the trigger discharging a round into the ceiling.”

 

The Senate Complex is sheltering in place, according to the US Senate Sergeant, but not the house, that is closer to the Navy Yard.

 

“In light of the uncertainty surrounding the shooting at the Navy Yard this morning and particularly the possibility of suspects remaining at-large, we have decided to shelter-in-place for the Senate complex,” US Senate Sergeant at Army, Terrance Gainer stated in an email Monday afternoon.

 

“We do not have any information to suggest the Senate, its members or staff are in any danger but out of an abundance of caution, we feel this is the best court of action to keep everyone safe,” Gainer wrote, first reported by Buzzfeed’s John Stanton.

 

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) told reporters Monday afternoon that the Senate is recessing until Tuesday morning

“An eyewitness to the aftermath of Monday’s shooting at the Washington, D.C. Navy Yard described the chaotic situation to TPM, including a moment where she watched a wounded man being dragged away from the scene,’ reports TPMLiveWire..

 

Bettina Ramon, a 33-year-old employee at Calvary Women’s Services, said she arrived at 8:30 a.m. ET on the corner of M Street and New Jersey Avenue to catch a bus, half a mile away from the Naval Sea Systems Command building where the shooting took place. She initially didn’t pay attention to a few police cars headed toward the building. “That’s kind of typical,” she said.

 

But then the volume of police cars increased and another bystander told Ramon and others that shots had been fired. Little did Ramon know, she had arrived at the bus stop at the same time that the shootings reportedly started.

 

“Things just really picked up after that,” she said. “It’s kind of a blur. It was happening so fast.”

 

At some point, Ramon said she and some other bystanders at the bus stop saw a man being dragged across a street in front of a CVS pharmacy. At first, Ramon thought the man had suffered a heart attack until other bystanders deduced that he had been shot, based on reports from Twitter. After that, she tried to look away.

 

The wounded man, who was wearing khaki pants and a blue button-up shirts, did not appear to be a law enforcement officer. People were attending to him on the ground in front of the pharmacy, though Ramon never saw him taken away from the scene in an ambulance.

 

Ramon said she never heard any gun shots, nor saw anybody who appeared to be a gunman.

 

Interesting tweet from Julie Davis ‏@juliehdavis 1m: “Wow RT @christinawilkie Just asked an MPD officer if there’s “a manhunt” underway. He answered “kinda.” What?”

ProgressPAC ‏@ProgressPAC1m 

Ann Boobus ‏@a_girl_irl 7m Tweets: “news media reports that Navy Yard Shooting suspect may be Muslim, Indian, Black, or Miss America, so start getting vigilante guns ready.”

 

ShannonJoy ‏@ShannonJoyRadio17s