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Homeland Chairman: Tennessee Shooting Appears ‘ISIS-inspired’
By Julian Hattem, July 17, 2015 The Hill
Thursday’s massacre of four Marines in Chattanooga, Tenn., appears to have been a terror attack motivated by Islamic extremism, the head of the House Homeland Security Committee said on Friday.
Though federal investigators later said there was "no indication" the shooting was directed by an outside group, Rep. Michael McCaul (R-Texas) said it had all the hallmarks of the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS).
“My judgment and my experience is that it was an ISIS-inspired attack,” McCaul said during a press conference at Florida’s MacDill Air Force Base. “The targets are identical to the targets called by ISIS to attack.”
The gunman, whom officials have identified as 24-year-old Kuwaiti-born Mohammad Youssuf Abdulazeez, was shot and killed in the firefight. Two other Marines and a local police officer were also injured in the massacre.
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