Policeman And Four Military Personnel Shot In Chattanooga

A police officer was shot this morning near a Navy recruiting center on Lee Highway in Chattanooga, Tennessee, and has been taken to a hospital.  Some nearby locations, including Chattanooga State University, have been placed under precautionary lockdowns.  There are reports, apparently not yet confirmed, of other victims.

Read more at WHNT, WREG and WRCB.

UPDATE:  The links are now indicating that up to four other people, all U.S. Marines, have also been shot, and that the shooter is now dead.

UPDATE 2:  According to the Chattanooga Times Free Press, four military personnel were shot and killed.  There were two military recruiting locations where the shootings occurred, one on Lee Highway, now identified as an Army recruiting center, and the other being a Naval and Marine Reserve Center at the Chattanooga River Park.  A quick look on Googlemaps shows U.S. Naval Reserve location on Amnicola Highway, a road mentioned in several of the above links, adjacent to a Tennessee River Park.

UPDATE 3:  As reported by the Star Tribune, the shooter has been identified as Muhammad Youssef Abdulazeez of Hixton, TN, who was believed to have been born in Kuwait.  Whether his citizenship was American or Kuwaiti has not been determined.  Besides the four Marines who were killed, a fifth Marine was wounded in the leg.  The police officer was hit in the ankle.