Updates to follow.
Via WRCB:
NBC’s Pete Williams reports that five people have been shot: one police officer, and four military members.
The shooting incident began on the U.S. Naval Recruiting on Lee Highway in Chattanooga ended at the U.S. Naval Reserve Center on Amincola Highway Thursday morning about 11am.
A Chattanooga police officer was shot, according to Chattanooga Mayor Andy Berke.
There may be other victims, but a number has not been confirmed.
The Department of Homeland Security has activated their Chattanooga Strike Team, other district strike teams have been put on standby.
Tennesse Gov. Bill Haslam’s residence has been shutdown temporarily, and additional security is in place at the Tennessee Capitol. Additional THP troopers are in place around the complex.
Roads around both areas are closed to traffic as the investigation continues.
UPDATE: Details still sketchy at this point.
Update: Note the “no guns allowed” sign on the door of the recruiting center.
CBS news is reporting that law enforcement officials have told them that the shooter in Chattanooga is dead. Their law enforcement sources also said that the police officer was shot in the leg and was not critically wounded, and that at least two Marines had also been injured in the attack.
Multiple media outlets were reporting the following photo, said to be of one of the recruitment centers that were reportedly attacked.
UPDATE: Semper Fi
UPDATE: I’d be shocked if this wasn’t ISIS (assuming these reports are accurate).
CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. (AP) — At least one gunman unleashed a barrage of gunfire at two military facilities Thursday in Tennessee, sending troops scrambling for safety in an Army recruiting office, officials said. […]
The U.S. Navy said in a tweet that there was a shooting at a Navy recruiting building on Amnicola Highway in Chattanooga.
A facility 7 miles away on Old Lee Highway also was attacked. Brian Lepley, a spokesman with the U.S. Army Recruiting Command in Fort Knox, Kentucky, said his recruiters there were told by law enforcement that the shooter was in a car, stopped in front of the facility, shot at the building and drove off.
UPDATE: New pic via BuzzFeed.
A woman who worked at a restaurant next to the recruiting office on Lee Highway told CNN she saw the shooting.
“I looked out of our window and I seen the guy in his car, a silver Mustang, drop top, a white guy and he had a high-powered rifle and was just firing shots into the Air Force, Navy and Marines office,” Gina Mule told CNN. “I don’t even know how many shots he fired, but it was a lot. … After he got done opening fire, he pulled out really quick.”
Update: Islam is a religion of peace in 3… 2… 1…
Update
Witness reported seeing white male in silver Mustang at one of the locations:
Via Heavy:
A woman who worked at a restaurant next to the recruiting office on Lee Highway told CNN she saw the shooting.
“I looked out of our window and I seen the guy in his car, a silver Mustang, drop top, a white guy and he had a high-powered rifle and was just firing shots into the Air Force, Navy and Marines office,” Gina Mule told CNN. “I don’t even know how many shots he fired, but it was a lot. … After he got done opening fire, he pulled out really quick.”
Air Force recruit almost was hit, took a shot to his backpack:
UPDATE:
#BREAKING: CBS News reporting Chattanooga shooting suspect identified as Muhammad Youssef Abdulazeez. #NC5 pic.twitter.com/vhSgVinqIJ
— Chris Cannon (@NC5_ChrisCannon) July 16, 2015
"Two law enforcement sources told CBS News that the shooting suspect was identified as Muhammad Youssef Abdulazeez." http://t.co/nvDY4Gucb5
— Instapundit.com (@instapundit) July 16, 2015
Update:
More on the shooter:
The gunman in the Chattanooga military installation shooting has been identified as 24-year-old Muhammad Youssef Abdulazeez.
He was believed to have been born in Kuwait, and it was unclear whether he was a U.S. or Kuwaiti citizen. The official who gave his identify was speaking on condition of anonymity to discuss the ongoing, sensitive investigation. It was not immediately clear whether the gunman’s first name was spelled Muhammad or Mohammad.
Abdulazeez is from Hixson, Tennessee, which is just a few miles across the river from Chattanooga. He was booked for a DUI in April 2015.
Police in Hixson kicked a reporter out of the neighborhood that contained a house apparently owned by Abdulazeez. The reporter saw a SWAT team and FBI agents staging at a nearby strip mall. The house, which Hamilton County records is owned by Youssuf S. Abdulazeez, is appraised at $206,100 by the Hamilton County Assessor of Property.
Police led two females out of the house in handcuffs, according to the Associated Press.
Heavy is also reporting he moved to Chattanooga from Phoenix. That nugget might be interesting to follow up on as that was where the Garland shooters were from.