Officer down’ as Tennessee military bases attacked

&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"wpcnt">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"wpa">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<span class&equals;"wpa-about">Advertisements<&sol;span>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"u top&lowbar;amp">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<amp-ad width&equals;"300" height&equals;"265"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; type&equals;"pubmine"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; data-siteid&equals;"111265417"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; data-section&equals;"2">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;amp-ad>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div><p>At least two military facilities in Tennessee have been attacked in shootings&comma; including a Navy recruiting building&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Chattanooga police said they were no longer looking for a gunman&comma; though there was no word as yet on what had happened to the suspect or suspects&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Chattanooga mayor Andy Berke said at a news conference that it was a &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;very terrible situation”&period; He said there’s &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;an officer down” at a military reserve centre&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Police have set up a command post near one of the sites&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The US Navy said in a tweet that there was a shooting at a Navy recruiting building in Chattanooga&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Law enforcement officials told recruiters at a facility seven miles away that they were also attacked by a gunman in a car&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The man stopped in front of the recruiting facility&comma; shot at the building and drove off&comma; said Brian Lepley&comma; a spokesman with the US Army Recruiting Command in Fort Knox&comma; Kentucky&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The Army recruiters at the facility told Mr Lepley they were not hurt and had evacuated&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>A US official later said the gunman had been identified as 24-year-old Muhammad Youssef Abdulazeez&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>He was believed to have been born in Kuwait&comma; and it was unclear whether he was an American or Kuwaiti citizen&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>He was from Hixson&comma; Tennessee&comma; which is just a few miles across the river from Chattanooga&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Chattanooga’s mayor described the killings as &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;incomprehensible”&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Mayor Andy Berke told a news conference that the gunman had also been killed but did not say how&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;I want to say again&comma; it is incomprehensible to see what happened and the way that individuals who proudly serve our country were treated&comma;” he said&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;As a city&comma; we will respond to this with every available resource we have&period;”<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Marilyn Hutcheson&comma; who works at Binswanger Glass just across the street from the US Naval Reserve building on Amnicola Highway&comma; said she heard a barrage of gunfire around 11am&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;I couldn’t even begin to tell you how many&comma;” she said&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;It was rapid fire&comma; 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