Who is Aaron Alexis and why did he murder at least 12 people in a secure military installation at the Washington DC Navy Yard?
No one seems to know a damned thing.
Endlessly curious type that I am, I Googled Aaron Alexis of Fort Worth Texas, and I found a dead Facebook page, and this mugshot.
(Arrest was for “PC 42.12(B) MA Discharge Firearm Ce”; the city and the age are a matchup.)
Oh, and a “Sorry but that page does not exist” Twitter account.
https://twitter.com/KillahAnacondaThe latest from Aaron Alexis-Destine (@KillahAnaconda). I’m tha killah anaconda who is a #1 hustla, gangsta, and playa! so follow me @KillahAnaconda on …
Not much by way of explanation, I’m afraid.
However, it seems to me that the man violated innumerable gun control laws. So I don’t see any way they can turn this awful murder spree into an argument for gun control.
MORE: According to a Freeper post referencing LinkedIn, Alexis might have a Navy background:
Aaron Alexis | LinkedIn
www.linkedin.com/pub/aaron-alexis/6a/31a/b4b
Dallas/Fort Worth Area –
Aaron Alexis’s Overview. Past. United States Navy at NAS Fort Worth JRB; Network Tech at SinglePoint. Education. Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University
MORE: There’s this from the Washington Post:
Alexis lived in Seattle and in Fort Worth, Texas, according to public records. He appears to have served in the Navy, but it is unclear whether he was still on active duty.
“We haven’t seen him for years,” said Helen Weeks of her nephew in a telephone interview. “I know he was in the military. He served abroad. I think he was doing some kind of computer work.”
No word yet on his motive.
MORE: According to this report, his work status had “been changed”:
Authorities identified the dead shooter as a Navy employee Aaron Alexis, whose work status had been changed earlier this year, said a federal government official who spoke only on condition of anonymity because he wasn’t authorized to speak on the record.
While that may suggest the motive was job related, authorities haven’t ruled out anything including terrorism, the official said.
If that’s true, I expect this to be soon labeled an act of “workplace violence.”
They used to call that “going postal.”
MORE: Looks like the “killah anaconda” person is completely unrelated. I only noticed it because the Twitter account had been closed.
MORE: According to commenter G (who checked Bing cache) the deleted Facebook profile is “from a musician who probably didn’t want his page spammed, not the same guy.”
Meanwhile, it has been confirmed that the shooter had been in the Navy, and apparently was a Buddhist. Weird. What he did seems very un-Buddhist-like to me.
MORE: The Daily Mail has a lot more about this nutjob:
In 2004, he was arrested in Seattle for shooting the tires of someone’s car during an anger-fueled ‘blackout’.
‘He said that he didn’t remember pulling the trigger of his firearm until about one hour later,’ according to the Seattle police report.
Later he said that he felt the intended victim ‘disrespected him’.
The report states that his father said his anger issues stemmed back to his time in New York where he helped the rescue efforts following the September 11 terrorist attacks.
The shooter’s father told police ‘that his son had experienced anger management problems that the family believed associated [sic] with PTSD.’
He was arrested in relation to this instance but never charged, and the same outcome occurred in Fort Worth, Texas where Alexis was living in 2010.
He was arrested for discharging a firearm when his neighbor reported that Alexis fired a shot into their apartment. At the time, Alexis claimed that his hand slipped when he was cleaning his gun, accidentally shooting the weapon.
Today Alexis- who had three different types of guns on him when he was shot- killed at least 12 people in cold blood this morning at the Washington Navy Yard. The motive has not been revealed, speculation is growing his dismissal from the U.S. Navy for ‘misconduct’ in January 2011 may have inspired him to commit a deadly revenge.
It has also been revealed he was awarded the Global War on Terrorism Service Medal and the National Defense Service Medal prior to his discharge in January 2011.
Alexis was arrested for property damage and the discharge of a firearm, according to the Seattle Police Department. But he was never charged in court. The paperwork apparently was lost.
“That report never got to the Seattle city attorney’s office,” said Kimberly Mills, a spokeswoman for the city attorney, in a telephone interview Monday. “Consequently, we never filed charges against Mr. Alexis.”
[…]
A Navy official, speaking on condition of anonymity, said Alexis was discharged from the service in January 2011 for “misconduct,” and that the 2010 firearms incident in Texas played a role in his departure.
Nothing remarkable about any of it, considering the inherent inefficiency in government. They can pass all the laws they want, but the laws are only as effective as the bureaucrats who administer them.
It also strikes me that this man was never held accountable for his misdeeds because the people whose job it was to hold him accountable were themselves unaccountable.
I mean “discharged for misconduct”? Surely that means he was dishonorably discharged, right?
MORE: It gets worse:
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Aaron Alexis, the 34-year-old suspect in Monday’s shooting rampage at the Washington Navy Yard, had “secret” clearance and was assigned to start working there as a civilian contractor with a military-issued ID card, his firm’s chief executive told Reuters.
“He did have a secret clearance. And he did have a CAC (common access card),” said Thomas Hoshko, CEO of The Experts Inc, which was helping service the Navy Marine Corps Intranet as a subcontractor for HP Enterprise Services, part of Hewlett-Packard Co.
Alexis, of Forth Worth, Texas, is suspected of opening fire at the Naval Sea Systems Command building in the Washington Navy Yard in a shooting that left 13 people dead, including the shooter.
Asked when Alexis was supposed to start work, Hoshko said in a telephone interview: “That’s what I got to find out, if he was supposed to start today … It’s not clear to me.”
Hoshko said he was unaware of any issues with misconduct involving Alexis or any possible grievance that could have led to the shooting.
In other words, there is no accountability.
We are being ruled by despicable fools. At the highest levels too.
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checked Bing cache — the deleted Facebook profile is from a musician who probably didn’t want his page spammed, not the same guy.
I mean “discharged for misconduct”? Surely that means he was dishonorably discharged, right?
He was given an administrative discharge “Under Honorable Circumstances” that is, a General Discharge. What went on while he was in the service probably won’t be revealed especially if it’s related to his mental condition. Same military cover-up that Major Hassan got. In covering for him they cover their own asses.
Should read “Under Honorable Conditions”…
Hence my sarcasm.
If mental health was funded in this country where would the republican party get its voters they would all be in padded cells! As our former gov. fife slimington one said about mental health funding a policemans bullet is a lot cheaper then a hospital bed. A short time later he was convicted of fraud but bubba got a large donation and pardoned him.
It’s out:
Aaron Alexis, 34, had been treated since August by the Veterans Administration for his mental problems, the officials said. They spoke on condition of anonymity because the criminal investigation in the case was continuing. The Navy had not declared him mentally unfit, which would have rescinded a security clearance that Alexis had from his earlier time in the Navy Reserves.
http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_NAVY_YARD_SHOOTING_GUNMAN_MENTAL_HEALTH?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2013-09-17-08-03-32
Predictably, Eric wants to blame “government bureaucrats” as if it was some license stamper at the DMV who is responsible.
How about calling a spade a spade and pointing out that it was military imcompetence? Don’t worry, you can still find a way to tangentally blame lefties.
AJtroll, the military IS government and likewise has its share of incompetent government paid bureaucrats. As to the VA, I have stopped using it because of the generally poor quality of doctors they hire. Go in for a routine colonoscopy and you may die.