Consulate Flag At Half Mast After Navy Shooting
The flag at the U.S. Consulate was flying at half mast on Tuesday [Sept 17] following the mass shooting in Washington DC.
Twelve people were killed in a mass shooting at the Washington Navy Yard on Monday, after a former Navy reservist went on a rampage.
The tragedy at the Navy Yard unfolded about 8:20 a.m. in the American capital, less than four miles from the White House.
The suspected shooter — Aaron Alexis, a 34-year-old information technology employee with a defense contractor — used a valid pass to get into the secure installation, the FBI said. He was killed in a gun battle with police.
Three weapons were found on Mr. Alexis: an AR-15 assault rifle, a shotgun and a semiautomatic pistol, a senior law enforcement officer said.
The motive for the mass shooting – the deadliest on a military installation in the U.S. since the attack at Fort Hood, Texas in 2009 – is not yet clear, international reports said.
All of the victims of the shooting have been identified. They are Frank Kohler, 50; Arthur Daniels, 51; Mary Francis Knight, 51; Gerald L. Read, 54; Martin Bodrog, 54; Richard Michael Ridgell, 52; Michael Arnold, 59; Sylvia Frasier, 53; Kathy Gaarde, 62; John Roger Johnson, 73; Kenneth Bernard Proctor, 46; and Vishnu Pandit, 61.
