Thread: Navy Yard shooter identified as Aaron Alexis

. . . Outside Fort Worth, Texas, friend Michael Ritrovato said Alexis had recently been frustrated with the civilian contractor about a payment issue. But Ritrovato said his friend never showed signs of aggressiveness or violence, though he played a lot of shooting video games online.

"It's incredible that this is all happening, because he was a very good-natured guy," Ritrovato said. "It seemed like he wanted to get more out of life."
In Seattle, police said they arrested Alexis in 2004 for shooting out the tires of another man's vehicle in what Alexis later told detectives was an anger-fueled "blackout." . . .

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. . . On Sept. 5, 2010, he was arrested in Fort Worth on suspicion of discharging a weapon. Alexis reportedly told officials that the gun had discharged accidentally when he was cleaning it. The Tarrant County district attorney did not prosecute. . . .

It appears he wasn't Muslim but Buddhist.

[Updated at 6:44 p.m. ET] One of Alexis' friends, Nutpisit Suthamtewakul, told CNN's Ed Lavandera that he had been Alexis' roommate for three years near Fort Worth, Texas, ending a few months ago when Suthamtewakul got married.
Alexis befriended Suthamtewakul four years ago after he emigrated from Thailand, and taught Suthamtewakul about American culture, Suthamtewakul told CNN. Alexis, he said, was fluent in Thai and attended a Buddhist temple.

[Updated at 8:52 p.m. ET] Alexis worked with The Experts, a subcontractor working on Hewlett Packard's contracts with the military, according to The Experts' chief executive officer, Thomas Hoshko.
Alexis received secret-level security clearance through the Defense Department twice in roughly the past year: Once for an assignment with The Experts to work on an HP contract in Japan refreshing computer systems late last year and early this year, and again in July for the Navy Yard assignment, Hoshko told CNN's Drew Griffin.

[Updated at 10:38 p.m. ET] Washington police are confident that only one person was involved in Monday morning's shooting, and they are lifting a shelter-in-place order for residents who live nearby, Police Chief Cathy Lanier said Monday night. Authorities have said suspect Aaron Alexis, 34, was killed after an encounter with security.

[Updated at 10:40 p.m. ET] Alexis had access to the yard because of his contracting work, and he used a valid pass to enter the yard, said Valerie Parlave, assistant director in charge of the Washington FBI field office.

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