Date: 7/16/2015

Summary: Kuwaiti-born Mohammod Youssuf Abdulazeez, 24, a naturalized US citizen, opened fire at a Naval reserve center, and then drove to a military recruitment office where he shot and killed four Marines and a Navy service member, and wounded a police officer and another military service member. He was then fatally shot in an exchange of gunfire with law enforcement officers responding to the attack.

Location: Military

Fatalities: 5

Injured:  2

Gender: Male

Type: Mass

Weapon: 2 assault rifles; semiautomatic handgun

Age of Shooter: 24

Mental Health Details: Yes (“some of the weapons were purchased legally and some of them may not have been”)

Sources: http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/07/16/us-usa-shooting-tennessee-idUSKCN0PQ1WY20150716; http://www.nytimes.com/2015/07/18/us/chattanooga-gunmans-past-scoured-for-extremist-ties.html; http://www.wsj.com/articles/chattanooga-shooting-highlights-online-gun-sales-1437435518http://www.nytimes.com/2015/07/19/us/chattanooga-attacks-claim-a-5th-military-service-members-life.html; http://www.cnn.com/2015/07/17/us/tennessee-naval-reserve-shooting/; https://twitter.com/markfollman/status/622105627473477632; http://www.nytimes.com/2015/07/21/us/chattanooga-gunman-wrote-of-suicide-and-martyrdom-official-says.html

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