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Chattanooga gunman was Kuwaiti born, but spent formative years in U.S.

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A picture is slowly coming into focus of the man who police say 
shot and killed four U.S. Marines during two attacks in 
Chattanooga, Tenn., but his full background and motive remained 
a mystery late Thursday afternoon.

“While it would be premature to speculate on the motives of the 
shooter at this time, we will conduct a thorough investigation 
of this tragedy and provide updates as they are available," an 
FBI official told Fox News, hours after the deadly attack.

Mohammad Youssef Abdulazeez, 24, who records show was born in 
Kuwait, was shot and killed by police after he allegedly 
attacked the Marines at the Navy Operational Support Center and 
Marine Corps Reserve Center around 11 a.m. Thursday.

Before attacking the military center, police say Abdulazeez 
sprayed an Armed Forces recruiting center seven miles away with 
bullets, leaving a police officer with a non-life threatening 
ankle wound.

A law enforcement source told Fox News that Abdulazeez was not 
on the FBI’s radar.

However, Bill Killian, U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of 
Tennessee, told reporters earlier that investigators "are 
treating this as an act of domestic terrorism.”

But who was Mohammad Youssef Abdulazeez? According to a senior 
U.S. official, he was born in Kuwait in 1990.  It is not clear, 
yet, whether he is a U.S. or Kuwaiti citizen. Fox News confirmed 
that his parents lived just across the river from Chattanooga in 
Hixson, Tenn., and that they have owned a house in that 
residential neighborhood since 2001.

The local Chattanooga Times Free Press reported that Abdulazeez 
graduated from the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga with a 
Bachelor of Science degree in electrical engineering in 2012. 
Before that, he graduated from Red Bank High School with a 
yearbook photo featuring the quote, “My name causes national 
security alerts. What does yours do?” Photos of the yearbook 
photo were sent to the newspaper, which also reported that he 
was arrested for driving under the influence on April 20 of this 
year.

In a statement, Travis Brickey of the Tennessee Valley 
Authority, said Abdulazeez was a student intern "approximately 
five years ago."

"As a member of the Chattanooga community our thoughts and 
prayers go out to the families of the victims," Brickey said.

The paper also reported that Abdulazeez's father, Youssuf 
Abdullazeez, was appointed as a "special policeman" for 
Chattanooga's Department of Public Works in March 2005. 
Residents and students who knew the 24-year-old suspect said he 
was a quiet kid, but well-liked.

"He was friendly, funny, kind," Kagan Wagner told the paper. "I 
never would have thought it would would be him."

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