Four marine s killed, at least three other people wounded after a gunman opened fire with an ak47 style weapon targeting a military Recruitment Office and Navy Reserve Center, all within 30 minutes time. Police killed that suspect, 24yearold Mohammad Youssuf abdulazeez. He was born in kuwait and had jordanian citizenship. He was a naturalized u. S. Citizen and recently travelled to the middle east but he was not in any of the u. S. Databases of suspected terrorists. We are checking every possible place that he could resign or could have resided, visited, where he shopped, where he went to school, who his friends werer, if he worked out at a gym, every possible lead. We have information that hes been in various location answer we will check each and every one of those. A yearbook entry from his high school reads my main cause is National Security alerts. What is yours . Cnns gary tuchman went to the fwlabd it is believed Mohammad Youssuf abdulazeez spent most of his childhood and has this report. We can tell you this is the house where he spent most of his life. He went to the university of chattanooga where he majored in electrical engineering. It is not clear if he had a job. He had a couple of internships but not clear if he had a job. He was a High School Wrestler a mixed martial arts fighter. We are told by his High School Wrestling coach he was a very good person. He would pray occasionally ask time off from wrestling to conduct muslim prayers. He was shocked. She was he was a great guy. Everyone is stunned in the neighborhood. One of his neighbors two doors away said as far as he knew, hes known him since he was a little kid, he was a normal person. I didnt see anything wrong with him. What kind of family does he have . I never found anything odd. That same neighbor told us he has three children and that Mohammad Youssuf abdulazeez had an older and younger sister an his sisters used to babysit for his children and the gunman would be in the house occasionally and had good conversations and thought he was a good kid and like the neighbors here couldnt believe the news when they heard about the little boy who used to live in that house is now a killer. That is gary tuchman reporting there. Witnesses say there were so many bullets fired they lost count. A source telling us that he was carrying 30round clips that helped him to keep police at bay for some time. We have more on how the attack play played out. This is the aftermath of Mohammad Youssuf abdulazeezs rampage. He targeted u. S. Military personnel at two with locations. This is being investigated as an act of terrorism. This is a sad day for the United States. These Service Members served their country with pride and they have been the victims of these shootings. Shortly before 11 00 a. M. Mohammad Youssuf Abdulazeez pulled out a high powered rifle and opened fire according to witnesses. I seen the guy in the car, silver mustang, and he had a highpowered rifle, it wasnt simultaneously but pow, pow pow. He was firing in to the navy, navy air force, marine office. I dont know how many shots but a lot. The suspect headed to a nearby reserve center seven miles away. There he opened fire killing four marines and wounding three others, including a policeman and military serviceman. He is now deceased ending a 30 minute long incident. What we know is somebody brutally and brazenly attacked members of our armed services. Tonight, authorities are doing a thorough forensic examination of the suspects car, hoping to find evidence or clues. It is believed he acted alone. Fbi and atf are investigating and declared it a federal crime scene. A former recruit is devastated to see the aftermath. That door with bullet holes all over it was the door that i walked through in 2009 to join the military and it hurts me. One of the things that both the media and investigators are hoping to find in situations like this is video, possibly Surveillance Video. Well we learned from the property manager at the lee highway, that there is one camera that points at the parking lot next to the Recruitment Center. Were told the fbi has been in contact to try to get that video. That is if video was recorded. No confirmation that it was. Back to you. Cnns Victor Blackwell reporting there. Cnn is not naming any of the victims at this point. Important to point that out, until their families are notified. U. S. President barack obama relayed his condolences to the families. He promised a thorough prompt investigation. My main message right now is obviously the deepest sympathies of the American People to the four marines that have been killed it is a heart breaking circumstance for these individuals who served our country with great valor to be to be killed in this fashion. The u. S. Homeland security secretary says authorities are heightening security at certain federals facilities. Chattanooga police who are responsible for taking down the shooter say they are helping as much as they can in the investigation. The Chattanooga Police department is working with all of the local, state and federal agencies to ensure that every single resource is put where it is needed or we feel it is is needed. We are meeting on an hourly basis to make sure any areas that might feel vulnerable are addressed in an appropriate manner. I can assure you that all agencies federal, state and local are working together with a common goal of keeping nempb this community, across this city and state and country safe. To talk more about what happened today, lets bring in our military analyst joining us live via skype. Rick good to have you with us. Its important to point out that look there are no ties at this point to isis according to investigators. No reason to believe he may have been inspired by a group like that. But theres a narrative playing out here again that we have seen before. Someone that friends remember as welladjusted citizen, that all of a sudden for some reason snapping. How troubling is that trend to officials . This highlights the difficulty we have in detecting and stopping these lone wolf attacks. You know we have talked about this before. The seemingly welladjusted young men somehow become inspired or radicalized and conduct these acts totally out of the blue. Sometimes you can go back and find a telltale warning sign but it wouldnt have come up on anybodys radar. Some of the writings he posted if they are attributed to him are not that inflammatory. It highlights the difficulty we have. Homeland security fbi and the military. The problem is, you know, this is not unheard of. There was a warning that went out in may to all of these military installation s to raise their alert level. I was surprised that the Marine Reserve center didnt have more security there. Rick when we talk about security at sites like that and we are talking about soft targets in general, can anything more be done to secure these soft targets . Yeah. I think we will have to change our attitude. There is a 1992 ruling by the Defense Department that there would be no weapons in many of these facilities unless you are training on those weapons. When you are overseas the first thing you do in any operation is you send security. I think we need to do that in these training bases. Someones going to have to be armed. Anytime you have a gathering of military personnel they are a target so they have to be secured. The recruiting offices pose a different set of problems because you want them open to the public. It is almost impossible to safeguard those. Maybe the pentagon needs to consider arming some of the recruiters. I know thats a big step but we cant continue to have things like what happened today. Rick so we are talking about an ak47 style weapon. Its pretty heavy weaponry fair to say. So where does the investigation go with that . Number one, how did he get it . Number two, did anyone see him training with it . Those are the questions that will come out. What we have heard from the neighbors, you know hes in to martial arts that sort of thing but have not heard of anything about the use of firearms. Of course he was overseas. We dont know what experiences he had overseas. Maybe he had some training there. How did he get the weapon . Actually weapons like that arent that hard to find. The question i have is was it a fully automatic or semiautomatic weapon. From what i hear it was probably a commercially version of the ak or m16 that has a semi semiautomatic capability. We know you will keep a close eye on this and well stay in touch with you to try to make some sense of something that seems senseless. Our military analyst Rick Francona thank you to much for your insight and time. Four families, as you know are without their loved ones right now. Our pentagon correspondent Barbara Starr explains how the military will help them get through this unbearable time. The u. S. Marine corps continuing to reach out to all of the family members of the fallen and indeed they are the fallen because this procedure for assisting families is the same procedure as if these marines fell on the bat le field of afghanistan iraq. They are going to have family liaisons with them marines with them to help them through the next many hours and days of everything they will be going through in the time ahead to grieve for their love ed ones. The marines are a small family. There are only tens of thousands of them and a lot of them know each other. So this is felt very deeply across the force. Barbara starr reporting there. The mayor of chattanooga says hearts are breaking across the country for the families of these victims. Hes also praising the hero ism of the First Responders at the scene where the suspect was taken down. Think about this afternoon is i came back to the Police Service center with chief fletcher and walked up to see a woman who was at the scene telling the chief about the heroic deeds that one of her fellow officers did to help her and to save another one of our officers. Im going to think of another officer who was at the scene who engaged the criminal. Telling us about how the training that he had received helped to make sure that the actions didnt have greater effect. Im going to think about another officer who is truly my friend who as i hugged him and said good job shook just a little bit. 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Law enforcement officials tell cnn he was born in kuwait and had jordanian citizenship but was a naturalized u. S. Citizen. Friends say he visited the middle east several years ago, but Officials Say his name has never appeared on any terror watch list and found nothing to tie him to an a International Terrorist organization. We have heard from a lot of people who knew the gunman including a former classmate who told our am ra walker that she would have never expected him to do Something Like that. He always, always had a smile on his face. He just he never seemed like the type of kid who would do something this heinous. It is incredible. Popular, witty, allamerican kid as all the people who knew and described him to be which doesnt fit the profile of a mass killer. Let me ask you about the yearbook photo from 2008 of Mohammad Youssuf abdulazeez and theres a quote next to his photo. It says my name causes National Security alerts. What does yours do . Apparently to give it context this is a quote somebody who belongs about struggles as a first generation american muslim. Im assuming Mohammad Youssuf abdulazeez chose this quote to go with his photo. Do you know why he chose that . More of a joke than anything else. As people have said before he was a devout muslim but he wasnt radicalized or anything. Its just that it kind of goes along with being a southern kid. Growing in the south and having a name like Mohammad Youssuf abdulazeez is obviously would get attention. Hes never gotten any negative attention as far as i knew but i think more than anything he was making a joke. It was funny at the time and now it is a little more morbidly ironic than anything else. Can you elaborate on that a bit . You say he got attention about his name growing up in the south. Did he ever talk about what it was like being muslim in the south in the United States . Did he talk to you about any struggles he may have had . Not really. Like i was saying just the name he always fit in well. He never got any negative attention, but being muslim in the south is kind of difficult. But he never had that. If anything he was more making light of it. More like yeah im this but its not all i am sort of thing, if that makes any sense. No word on motive yet. The fbi is investigating. Cnns brian todd reports. Its very clear the two military centers had very little security. With are learning more about the two centers hit in the hit. First is a military Recruitment Center in a strip mall shared by all four brampbls of the military. No one was killed there. It was riddled with bullets. On the Second Attack seven miles away this is what is known as an Operational Support center run by the u. S. Navy. It provides training and readiness support for the navy and marine mostly for reservists. All four marines killed were at that facility. On the security of this place, a Navy Official we spoke to said these facilities typically have gates and barriers. It is clear from these images this place had a fence. From the gunmans car, from images of the gunmans car we can see it appears the gunman might have breached that fence with his car. This Navy Official could not tell us if the security cameras, if there are security cameras at this facility. The official is also not sure if the place had Armed Security personnel at the time of the attack. He said you can not just walk in to these places. He said these buildings are usually marked with signage. Now as far as the security details of the other place, this military recruiting center not nearly as secure. A spokesman for the u. S. Army recruiting command said these are often store front facilities. Sometimes they are in malls. He said there are no barriers no gates. He said according to u. S. Army policy weapons are not prohibited on those premises. You can see there is a sign that says no weapons are allowed. A conservative group, which supports military members, this group is called move america forward. This group has been calling for more security at these recruiting centers for many years. Heres what the Army Recruiting spokesman had to say about that. Army recruiting center is the army in the community. If young men and women want to come and talk to us we need a nice, open area for them to come and do that. We need a welcome area. Barricades barriers and built like a fortress is not an inviting atmosphere. He says that following this incident there will be an afteraction review on recruiting centers and well see if the policy changes. There is a history of attacks at recruiting centers like this one. In 2009 a man opened fire outside of a military recruiting center in little rock arkansas. That killed one soldier and wounded another. He pleaded guilty and is serving a life sentence n. 2008, a bomb was placed in front of a u. S. Armed forces station in times square in the heart of manhattan. No one was injured when the bomb went off. That case was not solved. There was Surveillance Video of the bomber riding a bicycle approaching the recruiting center. To give you an idea of how open these p