Shooting with casualties at Washington Navy Yard

My goodness...another massive shooting? My heart goes out to the families, friends, and victims! This is getting insane.
 
WOW amazed at the great information everyone provides here. Thanks!!!
 
http://thelede.blogs.nytimes.com/20...vy-releases-service-record-for-aaron-alexis-2
Ray Mabus, the secretary of the Navy, told CNN that he believed Aaron Alexis had been working as a Navy contractor in the information technology area. He did not provide any additional details.
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As our colleague Thom Shanker reports, Navy officials have released the service record of Aaron Alexis, identified as the dead suspect in the shooting of 12 people at the Washington Navy Yard. He was killed in an exchange of gunfire with police.

According to the Navy, Mr. Alexis enlisted on May 5, 2007, completed his basic training in Great Lakes, Ill., from May to July of that year and underwent various professional training until September.

He was a full-time Navy reservist based in Texas when he left the service on Jan. 31, 2011, having earned the rank of aviation electrician’s mate third class. He served primarily in Fort Worth, assigned to Fleet Logistics Support Squadron 46 from February 2008 to January 2011. He had previously been assigned for a month to the Fleet Logistics Support Wing.
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The Fort Worth Star-Telegram reports that Aaron Alexis, 34, the suspected gunman in the mass shooting at the Washington Navy Yard, lived in Fort Worth and worked as a computer contractor, according to a man who said he was his best friend.

According to federal authorities, Mr. Alexis was found dead at the Navy Yard and identified through fingerprints. Police said they had not determined a motive for the shooting. Three weapons were found on the gunman: an AR-15 assault rifle, a shotgun and a semiautomatic pistol, an official said.

Nutpisit Suthamtewakul, the owner of Happy Bowl Thai in White Settlement, Tex., northwest of Fort Worth, told The Star-Telegram that Mr. Alexis had been his best friend. “He lived with me three years,” Mr. Suthamtewakul said. “I don’t think he’d do this. He has a gun, but I don’t think he’s that stupid. He didn’t seem aggressive to me.”

The newspaper reports that Mr. Alexis was arrested in September 2010 for discharging a firearm within a municipality, but records do not show whether he was formally charged in the case.
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What is security like at the Washington Navy Yard? - CNN.com
A contractor ID removed from the suspect's body matched the appearance of the dead man, a law enforcement source said.
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Jirus described how access typically works.

"I have a CAC card," he said, referring to a common access card, the standard ID for active duty uniformed service personnel, Selected Reserve, Defense Department civilian employees and eligible contractor personnel.

The ID also is the main card used to grant physical access to buildings and other controlled spaces.

"As a military person, we all have badges that we have to key the door to get in -- that allows us automatic access to the building.

"But again, if you're a contractor, if you're coming to visit the building, you can go through security and walk right in -- not walk right in, but you would check in through security," Jirus said.

CNN Pentagon Correspondent Barbara Starr has visited the Navy Yard various times.

In her experience, security is extensive. Everyone must have clearance to be there or valid identification that allows them entry.

If you were an employee of the facility, you would have a parking sticker and go through a checkpoint, Starr said. A guard would see your sticker, know that you were authorized to be on the compound and allow you to proceed.

If you were a visitor, as Starr would be, you'd call ahead and have an appointment. Guards would have your name at the gate, and you would be escorted to wherever you needed to go.

"So the question, of course, is -- how did somebody get a weapon onto the base?" she asked.

"Look, it is always possible in these types of situations, theoretically, to find your way around security measures. Somebody could have had a weapon in their car, unseen, hidden and taken it out.

"There's any number of ways it might have happened," Starr said.
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Steinhauer said:
An ID was used to enter. Not sure if the ID was stolen.
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I just heard that it was an stolen ID card. Then there has to be any better way to ID people , maybe uses eyes for ID like in NCIS . This horrible 12 innocent people where shot down in cold blood.
 
Jiro said:
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2013/09/16/us/site-of-the-navy-yard-shooting.html?_r=0

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8:20 a.m. Shots are fired at the Naval Sea Systems Command headquarters building, where about 3,000 people work. A witness reported that shots were heard in the cafeteria, on the first floor. Employees were told to stay where they were. Emergency personnel were on the scene.

11:20 a.m. The police instruct family members of Washington Navy Yard employees to reunite at a Nationals stadium parking lot.

12:15 p.m. The police report that one shooter is dead and that they are looking for two other possible armed individuals.
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I heard that someone pulled the fire alarm and people started run all over the place . If this true I would think it would had made people easy targets for the shooter.
 
Reba said:
It is for everyone except law enforcement and security.
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Oh ok, but I thought under definition, gun free zone means nobody carry guns, even LEO too - zero firearm for all people.

I'm sure there are security flaws at Navy Yard.

The deaf school in my state is gun-free zone for all citizens, exception of LEO and security. I saw "No firearm or weapons allowed" with state law citation on all building doors. It is state law that applies to state-run schools (deaf school, blind school) only but there are strong sheriff presence - too many sheriff on campus.
 
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Report said he treated for mental health issues.
 
Early Tuesday, the stories of some of those who died started to surface.


Michael Arnold, 59, of Lorton, Va., was a Navy veteran and avid pilot who was building a light airplane at his home, said his uncle, Steve Hunter.

"It would have been the first plane he ever owned," Hunter said in a telephone interview from Rochester, Mich., Arnold's hometown. "It's partially assembled in his basement."

Arnold graduated from the United States Naval Academy in Annapolis, Md., and served in the Navy for 29 years, before retiring as a captain last October, according to an article in the Navy Supply Corps Newsletter. Arnold, who had two master's degrees from the University of Washington in Seattle, then went to work for LMI, a consulting firm based in McLean, Va.

Hunter said his nephew worked at the Navy Yard on a team that designed vessels such as the USS Makin Island, a Wasp-class amphibious assault ship used by the Marine Corps. Jeff Bennett, a vice president at LMI, told The Washington Post that Arnold "was just a solid, solid citizen ... great American."

Arnold and his wife, Jolanda, had been married for more than 30 years, Hunter said. They had two grown sons, Eric and Christopher.

Hunter said Arnold returned to Michigan for Labor Day to visit his 80-year-old mother, Patricia.

"He was a loving son of his mother and his wife, and great father to his kids," said Hunter. "It's tragic. How can you get up in the morning and go to work and have that happen? How do bad things like that happen to good people?"
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Read more: Stories of Navy Yard shooting victims begin to emerge | Fox News
 
Sylvia Frasier, 53, had worked at Naval Sea Systems Command as an information assurance manager since 2000, according to a LinkedIn profile in her name.

Frasier studied at Strayer University, earning a bachelor of science in computer information systems in 2000 and a master's in information systems in 2002. Her duties at NAVSEA included providing policy and guidance on network security, and assuring that all computer systems operated by the headquarters met Department of Navy and Department of Defense requirements.

She also led efforts "to establish and implement procedures to investigate security violations or incidents," according to the profile.

Her brother, James Frasier, declined comment Monday night.
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Read more: Stories of Navy Yard shooting victims begin to emerge | Fox News
 
Kathleen Gaarde, 63, of Woodbridge, Va., was a financial analyst who supported the organization responsible for the shipyards, her husband, Douglass, wrote in an email to the AP early Tuesday.

Douglass Gaarde declined to speak, but wrote that he was unable to sleep.

"Today my life partner of 42 years (38 of them married) was taken from me, my grown son and daughter, and friends," he wrote. "We were just starting to plan our retirement activities and now none of that matters. It hasn't fully sunk in yet but I know I already dearly miss her."

Madelyn Gaarde, of Grand Junction, Colo., who's married to Douglass Gaarde's brother, said her sister- and brother-in-law met while he was studying electrical engineering at the University of South Florida in Tampa.

Douglass Gaarde, an Illinois native, also worked for the Navy until his retirement last year, his sister-in-law said.

"She was a very gracious person and very welcoming," she said of Kathleen Gaarde.
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Read more: Stories of Navy Yard shooting victims begin to emerge | Fox News
 
Kenneth Proctor, 46, worked as a civilian utilities foreman at the Navy Yard, his ex-wife, Evelyn Proctor, said. He spent 22 years working for the federal government, Evelyn Proctor said.

The Waldorf, Md., woman spoke to Kenneth early Monday morning before he left for work at the Navy Yard. It was his regular call. The high school sweethearts talked every day, even after they divorced this year after 19 years of marriage, and they shared custody of their two teenage sons.

She was in shock about her husband's death.

"He just went in there in the morning for breakfast," Proctor said Monday night of the building where the shooting took place. "He didn't even work in the building. It was a routine thing for him to go there in the morning for breakfast, and unfortunately it happened."

Proctor said she tried to call her ex-husband throughout the day and drove to the Navy Yard on Monday afternoon, fearing the worst. After waiting for about three hours alongside other relatives concerned about their loved ones, she was informed around 8 p.m. that he was among the dead. Officials did not detail the circumstances of his shooting, she said.

The Proctors married in 1994 and divorced this year. Their older son, Kenneth Proctor Jr., 17, enlisted in the Army after graduating from high school this spring and is in basic training in Oklahoma. Their younger son, Kendull Proctor, is 15.

"We were still very close. It wasn't a bitter divorce," Evelyn Proctor said. "We still talked every day, and we lived 10 minutes away from each other."

Kenneth Proctor was born and raised in Charles County, Md., where he lived until his death.

"He loved the Redskins. Loved his kids -- a very loving, caring, gentle person. His kids meant a lot to him," Evelyn Proctor said.
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Read more: Stories of Navy Yard shooting victims begin to emerge | Fox News
 
:( so sad, too many tragedies!

Reba, I think it was a good idea to post about the people who died, a way to honor them by reading and learning about them:aw:
 
awwww reba, thanks for posting each of them. I am stunned to learn about it. why DC again and again. :(
 
• Michael Arnold, 59, of Lorton, Virginia;

• Sylvia Frasier, 53, of Waldorf, Maryland;

• Kathy Gaarde, 62, of Woodbridge, Virginia;

• John Roger Johnson, 73, of Derwood, Maryland;

• Frank Kohler, 50, of Tall Timbers, Maryland;

• Kenneth Bernard Proctor, 46, of Waldorf, Maryland;

• Vishnu Shalchendia Pandit, 61, of North Potomac, Maryland;

• Arthur Daniels, 51, of Southeast Washington, D.C.;

• Mary Francis Knight, 51, of Reston, Virginia;

• Gerald L. Read, 58, of Alexandria, Virginia;

• Martin Bodrog, 54, of Annandale, Virginia;

• Richard Michael Ridgell, 52, of Westminster, Maryland.

Names of 12 victims of Navy Yard shooting released - CNN.com
 
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