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Last updated on Friday, July 17, 2015
(CHATTANOOGA, Tenn.) - The gunman who killed four Marines and injured three others, including a police officer and a Marine recruiter, has been identified as 24-year-old Mohammod Youssuf Abdulazeez, a naturalized US citizen from Kuwait.
The gunman was killed during a shootout with Chattanooga Police. He was arrested for a DUI back in April.
A motive has yet to be determined, although, a top federal prosecutor said the attacks would be investigated as an act of domestic terrorism.
The shootings happened about 40 minutes and six miles apart, first at a military recruitment center and then at a Navy and Marines reserve center.
Authorities say they have no reason to believe that anyone else was involved in the shootings.
One of the wounded, a police officer, was shot in the leg and underwent surgery.
Police said Abdulazeez is believed to have been living in the area. They said he was armed with "numerous weapons."
There were two shooting sites. The first calls came in after 11 a.m., and police responded to a shooting on Amnicola Highway.
A woman who says she witnessed the shooting in Chattanooga says she heard a barrage of gunfire near one of the shooting sites.
"It was rapid fire, like pow pow pow pow, so quickly. The next thing I knew there were police cars coming from every direction," said Marilyn Hutcheson, who works at a Binswanger Glass.
Chattanooga Mayor Andy Berke said at a brief news conference earlier that police were pursuing an active shooter and there was an officer down.
Hutcheson says she ran inside, where she remains with other employees and a customer. The gunfire continued with occasional bursts she estimated for 20 minutes.
"We're apprehensive," Hutcheson said. "Not knowing what transpired, if it was a grievance or terroristic related, we just don't know."
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