BREAKING: Four Marines Dead in Shooting Attack at Tennessee Navy Facility
Posted: July 16, 2015 Filed under: Breaking News, Crime & Corruption | Tags: Amnicola Highway, Chattanooga, Chattanooga Times Free Press, East Tennessee, Fort Knox, Hancock, Islamberg, Naval Reserve Center, Navy, New York, Sequatchie County, Shooting, Tennessee, U.S. Army Recruiting Command 2 Comments
Officials: 5 victims in Chattanooga shootings
Four Marines were reportedly killed Thursday in one of two attacks at U.S. Navy facilities in Chattanooga, Tenn., and at least one shooter was dead.
The Marines were killed by a gunman who opened fire at a Naval Reserves Operations Center on Amnicola Highway, according to the Chattanooga Times Free Press. Marilyn Hutcheson, who works at Binswanger Glass just across the street from the Naval Reserve Center on Amnicola Highway, said she heard a barrage of gunfire around 11 a.m.
“I couldn’t even begin to tell you how many. It was rapid fire, like pow pow pow pow pow, so quickly. The next thing I knew, there were police cars coming from every direction.”
– Marilyn Hutcheson, a witness
“I couldn’t even begin to tell you how many,” she said. “It was rapid fire, like pow pow pow pow pow, so quickly. The next thing I knew, there were police cars coming from every direction.”
The names of the Marines who were reportedly shot were not immediately released, and government officials did not confirm the report.
The shooting there came around the same time that a gunman in a silver Mustang opened fire at a Navy recruiting office in a strip mall some seven miles away, on Lee’s Highway. The shooter stopped in front of the recruiting facility, shot at the building and drove off, said Brian Lepley, a spokesman with the U.S. Army Recruiting Command in Fort Knox, Ky.
“This is a very, very terrible situation. I’m very concerned about what’s going on. We need to figure out how to handle it.”
— Andy Berke, the city’s mayor
Lepley said the recruiting center on Old Lee Highway has recruiting services for all four branches of the military. The Army recruiters told Lepley they have evacuated and are safe. He has no information about recruiters for the other branches.
It was not immediately known if the shootings were related, or what prompted them.
A federal law enforcement official told Fox News that officers from FBI’s Knoxville field office responded to the scene.
The Knoxville News Sentinel reported that there is a heavy police presence at the , along with five ambulances….(read more)
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
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