Suspect In Navy Yard Attack Previously Arrested In Seattle For “Anger-Fueled” Shooting

[The Straight Story]

Suspect In Navy Yard Attack Previously Arrested In Seattle For “Anger-Fueled” Shooting
Written by Jonah Spangenthal-Lee on September 16, 2013

Aaron Alexis, the man identified by Washington D.C. police as a suspect in this morning’s tragic attack on a US Navy Yard, was previously arrested by Seattle police in 2004 for shooting out the tires of another man’s vehicle in what Alexis later described to detectives as an anger-fueled “blackout.”

Because Seattle police have received numerous inquiries about the incident, we are posting the details, detective logs, and the original report for the May 6, 2004 case.

At about 8 am that morning, two construction workers had parked their 1986 Honda Accord in the driveway of their worksite, next to a home where Alexis was staying in the Beacon Hill neighborhood.

The victims reported seeing a man, later identified by police as Alexis, walk out of the home next to their worksite, pull a gun from his waistband and fire three shots into the two rear tires of their Honda before he walked slowly back to his home north of the construction site.

http://spdblotter.seattle.gov/2013/09/16/suspect-in-navy-yard-attack-previously-arrested-in-seattle-for-anger-fueled-shooting/

[FarCenter]

1. 9/11 PTSD?

Alexis also told police he was present during “the tragic events of September 11, 2001″ and described “how those events had disturbed him.”

Detectives later spoke with Alexis’ father, who lived in New York at the time, who told police Alexis had anger management problems associated with PTSD, and that Alexis had been an active participant in rescue attempts on September 11th, 2001.

[Tx4obama]

2. In the OP linked article it says his father said that his son has PTSD

[gopiscrap]

3. I thought he was arrested in Texas for the weapons violation

[Tx4obama]

5. The arrest in Texas was 2010 - a different incident. n/t

[gopiscrap]

6. ok thanks

[pediatricmedic]

9. He was, so how did he pass the background check for CCW in Texas?

[Tx4obama]

4. So, with the 2004 arrest and the 2010 arrest - it seems like he wouldn't have clearance

... to work on a military base.

[gopiscrap]

7. yeah that ran through my head also

[HooptieWagon]

8. Or legally own a gun.

It seems like a whole lot of shit slipping through the cracks.

[DURHAM D]

10. My guess is that his "clearance" was another one of

those fabricated ones. The for-profit "clearance" business needs to be shut down. Wasted taxpayer money.

[jakeXT]

12. Wasn't there a shortage of troops before the crash?

Almost 12% of U.S. Army recruits required waivers for criminal records


...



Applicants who have committed a single felony such as arson, burglary, aggravated assault, breaking and entering, or marijuana possession must also receive a moral waiver to join. Applicants with more than one felony - or with a single conviction for a more serious crime such as homicide, sexual violence, or drug trafficking - are not eligible.

Army officials acknowledge privately that the increase in moral waivers reflects the difficulty of signing up sufficient numbers of recruits to sustain an increasingly unpopular war in Iraq; the Army fell short of its monthly recruiting goals in May and June.

Since Oct. 1, 2006, when the fiscal year began, more than 8,000 of the roughly 69,000 recruits have been granted waivers for offenses ranging in seriousness from misdemeanors such as vandalism to felonies such as burglary and aggravated assault.

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/07/13/world/americas/13iht-13recruits.6652316.html?_r=0


http://m.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2013/08/the-military-as-abusive-parent-the-view-toward-syria-from-an-exhausted-army/279235/

[maddezmom]

11. And this was before he entered the reserves