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Ignored Kit Solved Her Rape After 18 Years $2.00 E6 THE NATION’S NEWS JULY 17 - 19, 2015 IN LIFE EMMY NOMINATIONS Your guide to the good calls and bad Emilia Clarke in “Game of uHow Thrones.” Netflix has already won uStars react Taraji P. Henson in “Empire.” HBO VIA AP FOX 4 Marines slain in Tenn. shooting he was a naturalized U.S. citizen Mixed- thorized to comment publicly. Highway, where he fired into the Gunman is also from Kuwait. July 16, 2015The Marine Corps said the oces. killed; case probed U.S. Attorney Bill Killian said martial four Marines died at a Navy-Ma- Authorities didn’t disclose the attack was being investigated arts rine training site about 7 miles whether the gunman was killed as domestic terror as possible “domestic terrorism.” http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2015/07/16/from the all-branches recruiting by ocers or shot himself. The FBI cautioned that it was fighter center. A fifth Marine was “Today, the Navy and Marine untested-rape-kits-evidence-across-usa/29902199/ Matt Slovin premature to speculate on the Suspect was wounded in the leg but not seri- Corps team collectively mourn motives of the shooter. a talented, ously hurt at the training center. the loss of four heroes,” Secretary The Tennessean U.S. Attorney General Loretta A Chattanooga police ocer was of the Navy Ray Mabus said. “The and Doug Stanglin ‘respectful kid,’ Lynch said the FBI will lead a na- former trainer wounded in the ankle, Mayor An- tragedy in Chattanooga is both USA TODAY HAMILTON COUNTY tional security investigation. “I SHERIFF’S OFFICE says. 3A dy Berke said. devastating and senseless.” have directed the FBI to take the “This is a nightmare for the Residents of Colonial Shores, a CHATTANOOGA, TENN. A heavily lead in the national security in- Two federal law enforcement city of the Chattanooga,” he said. quiet, shaded neighborhood in armed attacker sprayed two mili- vestigation of this heinous at- ocials said it appeared the President Obama called the Hixson, Tenn., where the gun- tary sites with gunfire Thursday, tack,” she said in a statement. shooter acted alone, but investi- attack “heartbreaking.” man’s family lived, were prevent- killing four U.S. Marines and Hours after the first attack, at gators were looking for possible The gunman, who drove a sil- ed from returning to their homes wounding three other people. an all-branches recruiting center, associates. There is no immediate ver Mustang convertible, first Thursday afternoon by an armed The attacker was also killed. law ocers swarmed a house evidence the shooter knew any of fired at an Armed Forces Career guard. The FBI identified the gunman they suspected was Abdulazeez’s the victims, the ocials said. 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