Navy Yard Shooting in Washington D.C. - Live Updates
Thirteen are dead after a shooting at the Navy Yard in Washington, D.C.
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Navy Yard Shooting Witness Patricia Ward tells ABC News: "It was about 8:30 this morning, I was going to the cafeteria to get something to eat and I heard three shots, pow pow pow. Thirty seconds later I heard 2 more shots and a couple of us that were in the cafeteria knew they were shots and we started panicking."
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D.C. Mayor Vincent Gray: "We obviously had a horrific tragedy today." He says shooter entered building at 8:20, began shooting. Active shooter team responded immediately and launched search for shooter. Four wounded have been removed from scene and have been taken to a hospital. They are still trying to confirm number of fatalities. They believe it is an isolated incident.
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Chief Lanier: "At this point it is still very preliminerry. Right now I can tell you initial call came in for shooting shortly after 8:15 for a shooting in the Navy Yard. Our units were on the scene and sactive shooter team deployed within seven minutes of call coming in. One MPD officer was shot after engagement with shooter, and one shooter we beleived involved in this that is deceased. We have multiple victims inside that are deceased and will give updates when those numbers are concerned."
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Police chief says two potential shooters still out there. Chief Lanier describes suspects: white male last seen around 8:35- 8:40 this morning in khaki military uniform with beret hat and a handgun and a black male, about 50 years old, who may be in possession of a long gun, in olive drab colored possible military-style uniform. They do not believe they are military personnel but might be in military style uniforms. If anyone has seen them call MPD at 202-727-9099.
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Shooting eyewitness Patricia Ward said she heard gunshots in the cafeteria shortly before 8:30 a.m. "I heard a total of seven shots. Everyone that was in the cafeteria, we were trying to run in the back. The workers in the cafeteria told us to come in the back but I refused, I wanted to get out of the building. We all ran to the side of the building where security was." (Mandel Ngan/AFP/Getty Images)
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The Department of Justice released this statement about the shooting moments ago: “Attorney General Holder was briefed on the shooting incident at the Washington Navy Yard early this morning, and has been updated on a regular basis, including by FBI Director James Comey. Justice Department law enforcement components are providing all necessary assets, and tactical and investigative support to federal and local responders. The FBI, ATF and USMS have dispatched personnel and other assets to assist MPD at the scene. Justice Department officials have also been in touch with the White House throughout the morning.”
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Police have the name of the deceased, alleged shooter, though ABC News is not reporting that name at this time. Police describe him as a former Navy official in his 50s, whose work status was recently changed.
They are investigating the possibility of two additional shooters in military-style uniforms with guns. -
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President Obama:"I've been briefed by my team on the situation. We still don't know all the facts, but we do know that several people have been shot and some killed. So we are confronting yet another mass shooting, and today it happened on a military installation in our nation's capital. It targeted our military and civilian personnel, men and women who were going to work, doing their job protecting all of us. They are patriots. And they know the dangers of serving abroad, but today they faced the unimaginable violence that they won't have expected here at home."
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Chief Lanier: Right now we have multiple pieces of information that suggest at least 2 other individuals seen with firearms, know both were wearing military-style uniforms, but do not know if they are military employees. We know they were involved in some way and are trying to locate them.
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#BREAKING : Shelter in place order remains at Washington Navy Yard. More info to follow as confirmed. #NavyYardShootingSep. 16, 2013Delete
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The Senate canceled its vote for the day and will reconvene tomorrow because of the Navy Yard Shootings. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid canceled today's vote not out of public safety, but rather out of respect for the 12 people killed in the mass shooting not far from Capitol Hill, aides told ABC News.
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One of the dead was a Navy security officer.
From ABC News' Luis Martinez:
Fear Admiral John Kirby, the Navy Chief of Information, confirms that one of the dead was a Navy security officer in the building. He does not know if the security officer was active duty military or a private contractor.
Adm. Kirby also confirmed that the Navy’s top admiral, Adm. Jonathan Greenert was on the base at the time of the shooting. Greenert’s residence is located on the facility, but he was elsewhere on the base at the time of the shooting. Kirby says Greenert was filming an internal Navy video message at the time of the shooting and was then evacuated, he is now at the Pentagon working out of his office. -
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Mayor Gray says 13 dead including shooter, one victim died at the hospital. They are still looking into the possibility of one additional shooter, a black male in his 50s wearing a drab olive military-style outfit.Gray did not release information on the identities of the victims or shooter.
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Here's what we know so far about D.C. Navy Yard Shooter Aaron Alexis.
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President Obama has ordered the flags at all federal and military installations to be flown at half-staff through Friday in honor of the victims of today’s Navy Yard shooting.
From the White House:
Signed today is a proclamation by the President honoring the victims of the shooting at the Washington Navy Yard.
In this proclamation the President directs that flags be lowered to half-staff immediately and remain at half-staff until sunset on Friday, September 20.
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Aaron
Alexis, deceased, is believed to be responsible for the shootings at the
Washington Navy Yard, in the Southeast area of Washington, DC, around 8:20 a.m.
on Sept. 16, 2013. The FBI os asking for the public's assistance with my
information regarding Alexis. (Getty
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Seattle police just posted a blog entry in which they say that shooter Aaron Alexis was once arrested in Seattle for shooting out the tire's of another man's vehicle during an "anger-fueled blackout."
Alexis's father told police his son had PTSD from the events of Sept. 11, 2001, according to the post.
From the blog post:
At about 8 am that morning, two construction workers had parked their 1986 Honda Accord in the driveway of their worksite, next to a home where Alexis was staying in the Beacon Hill neighborhood.
The victims reported seeing a man, later identified by police as Alexis, walk out of the home next to their worksite, pull a gun from his waistband and fire three shots into the two rear tires of their Honda before he walked slowly back to his home north of the construction site.
Officers responded to the scene but were unable to locate Alexis, and no one answered the door at his home.
When detectives interviewed workers and a manager at the construction site, they told police Alexis had “stared” at construction workers at the job site every day over the last month prior to the shooting. The owner of the construction business told police he believed Alexis was angry over the parking situation around the work site.
Following his arrest, Alexis told detectives he perceived he had been “mocked” by construction workers the morning of the incident and said they had “disrespected him.” Alexis also claimed he had an anger-fueled “blackout,” and could not remember firing his gun at the victims’ vehicle until an hour after the incident.
Alexis also told police he was present during “the tragic events of September 11, 2001″ and described “how those events had disturbed him.”
Detectives later spoke with Alexis’ father, who lived in New York at the time, who told police Alexis had anger management problems associated with PTSD, and that Alexis had been an active participant in rescue attempts on September 11th, 2001.
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Nutpisit Suthamtewakul, owner of Happy Bowl Thai in White Settlement, Texas, told ABC News that he was a "good and close friend" of Alexis. He said the two lived together for three or four years.
"I don't believe he did that," Suthamtewakul told ABC News. "He can be tough physically, but I don't think he'd kill people."
Suthamtewakul said Alexis liked to play games, drink and party. Alexis spoke Thai fluently, he said, traveled a lot for work and had been living in Washington for four or five months.
"He's not aggressive," he said. "He had a gun but that doesn't mean he's gonna shoot people. He had a concealed-weapons permit."
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ABC News' Pierre Thomas and Jack Date report, citing law enforcement sources: The suspect had a security clearance that allowed him onto the Navy Yard as part of his civilian subcontracting work. He and members of the subcontracting team were staying at a Residence Inn about a mile from the Navy Yard. The suspect’s car was found on the Washington Navy Yard. A senior law enforcement official said he used his security clearance to get on campus and it appeared he did not force his way onto the property. Officials are in the process of getting a search warrant to search the vehicle that’s described as a rental car. There is no indication that this was terrorism and no hard evidence so far that there was a second shooter. -
