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It was about 2:30 p.m. eastern today when nbc's pete williams reported that officials had identified the man who allegedly opened fire at the navy yard, killed 12 people before he himself was killed. the man is aaron alexis, 34 years old. according to his aunts, he grew up in brooklyn, new york, with his mother and his father and his brother. he had been in the navy reserve for about four years. we continue to learn more about him as each hour passes. but here's the basics of what we know so far. he did serve in the naval reserves, but he was never on active duty. he never deployed to a war zo...

Reporters was do you have any idea how the shooter got into the building? how could the shooter access this high-security building at the navy yard? authorities at one of those press conferences, as soon as they were asked that, said they do not know, and it remains one of the many unanswered questions still tonight. joining us now is nbc news national security producer courtney kuby. thanks for being here tonight. i know it's been an exhausting day. >> thanks for having me. >> this building where the shooting took place, the pentagon is part of your beat. you've done a lot of reporting on mil...

The last few minutes, the people here in ft. worth are learning virtually for the first time about the man they called their friend. the incidents with the gun in seattle, the other one here in ft. worth, they said they never knew about that. they never knew the severity of it. but one thing a friend did say to us that said looking back on it, it was kind of disturbing, that alexis was obsessed with online, violent video games, that every time they went over to his apartment or to his house, he was in his room with headphones on, communicating with other people online and playing these very vi...

The case. mr. alexis then told me that his son had experienced anger management problems that the family believed to be associated with ptsd," post-traumatic stress. he confirms that his son was an active participant in rescue attempts on september 11th, 2001. and none of that is confirmed at that point, but that is what is in the seattle police department's report for that arrest in 2004. again, of the man who police say was the shooter at the navy yard in washington, d.c., today. the same man was arrested again in 2010 in ft. worth, texas. that police report from the ft. worth police describ...

By u.s. marines and by other security personnel. the grounds are big. there's more than 2 million square feet of office space there, dozens and dozens of buildings. the building where today's shooting took place is called building 197. it's the headquarters of the naval sea systems command. on any given day, there is something like 3,000 people working in that one command alone. the naval sea systems command is responsible for designing and building and engineering ships and weapons for the u.s. navy. building 197 is described as a high-security facility, but interestingly, it also serves as a...