Chattanooga: four U.S. military personnel killed in shooting
The Pentagon said on Thursday that four U.S. military personnel were killed and one was wounded in two separate shooting incidents in Chattanooga, Tennessee, on Thursday.
“We can confirm that four Defense Department service members were tragically killed and one wounded in two separate shootings in Chattanooga, Tennessee today,” the Pentagon said in a statement.
It said the shootings took place at a Network Operations Support Center operated by the U.S. Navy and at an armed forces recruiting center. The U.S. Marine Corps said in a tweet that the four personnel killed were Marines.
The Pentagon and Marine Corps said the names of the victims would be released after their next of kin had been notified.
The Chattanooga mayor says the killings of the four military personnel are “incomprehensible.”
Andy Berke said at a news conference that the shooter had also been killed. He told the conference, that “it is incomprehensible to see what happened and the way that individuals who proudly serve our country were treated…As a city, we will respond to this with every available resource we have.”
