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Four Marines killed at Tennessee US Navy centres
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A gunman has killed four US Marines and injured several others at two US Navy buildings in Chattanooga, Tennessee.
A local district lawyer said the shootings were being investigated as an "act of domestic terrorism".
The gunman, who was shot dead, was named as 24-year-old Mohammad Youssuf Abdulazeez by the FBI and local reports said he was born in the Middle East.
President Barack Obama said the attack was "heartbreaking" and said the suspect appeared to be a "lone gunman".
Abdulazeez is believed to have been born in Kuwait, but has lived in the US for several years.
He was arrested earlier this year in Chattanooga for driving under the influence of alc
A spokesman for the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga said a
student with the same name graduated in 2012 with a degree in
engineering, according to local media reports.
The Chattanooga Times newspaper reported that he went to a local high school and competed on the wrestling team.
He left this message in his school yearbook: "My name causes national security alerts. What does yours do?"
Analysis: By Gary O'Donoghue, BBC News, Tennessee
The
investigation is still at an early stage, but it appears that Muhammad
Youssef Abdulazeez was acting alone. What made him do what he did will
be the subject of intensive inquiries that will delve deep into his past
and that of his friends and family, and into his state-of-mind.
But lone wolves, as such men are often described, are the hardest to stop.
Both
the president and the head of the FBI have recently underlined this
problem and called on local communities to be vigilant for the signs of
any radicalisation.
It is also hard for the authorities to
protect all potential targets. The first location at which Abdulazeez
began firing was an army recruitment office, in the middle of a strip
mall - flanked by a mobile phone shop and an Italian restaurant - in
other words, firmly within the local community. Many will not want the
military to completely retreat behind barbed wire and concrete barriers. Armed
police raided the house where he lived, a few miles outside Chattanooga
in Hixson, after the shootings and an AP reporter said two women were
led away in handcuffs.
In a statement, the FBI confirmed his identity but said it "would be premature to speculate on the motives of the shooter at this time".
Officials told the AP news agency that Abdulazeez was not known to federal law enforcement before the attacks.
Earlier,
US officials said authorities were investigating whether the gunman was
inspired by or had links to the Islamic State (IS) group or other
jihadist organisations.
IS leaders have called on their followers to launch attacks during the month of Ramadan, which comes to an end this weekend.
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