
Police have now released the full list of victims in Monday's Navy Yard shooting rampage. The 12 were employees at the Naval Sea Systems Command in Washington, D.C. They were killed when gunman Aaron Alexis opened fire. He was fatally shot by police.
The remaining five were identified today as: Arthur Daniels, 51, of Washington; Mary Francis Knight, 51 of Reston, Virginia; Gerald Read, 58, of Alexandria, Virginia; Martin Bodrog, 54, of Annandale, Virginia; and Richard Michael Ridgell, 52, of Westminster, Maryland.
On Monday night, officials identified: Michael Arnold, 59; Sylvia Frasier, 53; Kathy Gaarde, 62; John Roger Johnson, 73; Frank Kohler, 50; Vishnu Pandit, 61, and Kenneth Bernard Proctor, 46. Ref. CNN
Another crazy guy with a gun. How did he manage to get that through security, don't they have metal detectors that should have picked that up? He could not be all that crazy if he was able to premeditate the attack.
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Suspected U.S. Shooter had 'secret' clearance, employer says:
"He did have a secret clearance. And he did have a CAC (Common access card)," Said Thomas Hoshko, CEO of The Experts Inc, which was helping service the Navy Marine Corps Intranet as a subcontractor for HP Enterprise Services, part of Hewlett-Packard Co. Ref. Source 9
An initial investigation by the Navy shows that personnel at Naval Station Newport did not act last month on a police report about bizarre behavior in a Rhode Island hotel room by Aaron Alexis, suspected in the workplace killing of 12 people at the Washington Navy Yard. The Navy personnel did not contact his employer or raise the issue with other Naval officials, a Pentagon official tells USA TODAY. "There is no indication that the information went beyond the naval security force (At base)," Said the official, who spoke on the condition of anonymity. He added that more details could emerge as the investigation continues. Ref. USAToday
The employers of Navy Yard shooter Aaron Alexis, who killed 12 people there last September, failed to notify Navy authorities about their concerns about Alexis' mental health, and Navy officials failed to monitor the contractors who employed Alexis, according to a Navy report on the incident released Tuesday. Ref. USAToday