Minute by minute: How the Navy Yard shooting unfolded

[The Straight Story]

Approximately 8:15 a.m.

1Aaron Alexis, wearing a backpack, enters Building 197 with a valid pass and key card.

2Law enforcement sources say he made his way to a fourth-floor bathroom and emerged with a shotgun.

Altered Remington 870 shotgun

34He begins firing his shotgun from the fourth floor, then goes down to the third floor and the lobby.
8:23 a.m.

Police receive report of gunshots at Navy Yard Building 197. A four-person active shooter team is assembled and reaches the Navy Yard in two minutes. Within six minutes, they are inside the complex.
8:28 a.m.

An e-mail goes out to Navy Yard workers telling them to "shelter in place."
8:30 a.m.

Seven minutes after the police received the call, the first units armed with AR-15 assault rifles hear shots and enter the building.
8:43 a.m.

Emergency responders are warned by officers in the building that there is an active shooter and several victims down.
At some point

Alexis kills a security guard in the lobby and takes the guard's 9mm handgun, according to law enforcement authorities. He drops the shotgun and begins firing with the handgun.



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[Logical]

1. Like a security guard the NRA says will protect kids in school? nt

[pipoman]

2. I thought he had an AR-15?

[X_Digger]

3. The latest is that he rented (and returned) an AR-15 at a local range, days before.

A pump shotgun and two handguns seem to be the weapons used (and the handguns were taken from downed officers.)

[NYC_SKP]

7. I'm not sure that's been verified. There's been so many errors in reporting details.

I also read that he wanted to buy an AR but couldn't.

If he did rent one, it would likely be just for the day at the range, to be kept on the range and not taken home.

But I'm unfamiliar with the law.

Who knows? We have to wait a little longer, I think.

[X_Digger]

8. *nod* Good point. n/t

[The Straight Story]

4. No, nor did he have a hand gun

But some aren't interested in the facts, just how to use the death of others for an agenda.

Oh, and that CCW someone said he had - do you think if he didn't have one he wouldn't have carried in a shotgun concealed anyway, or would he have been afraid of breaking that law and not the many others he did?

[pipoman]

11. Some are hoping

for their exaggeration early after one of these tragedies to lead to some sort of lie-based groundswell resulting in some constitutional impossibility to occur..

[NYC_SKP]

5. I haven't heard anything about the shotgun being altered.

That may just be the caption of the image they decided to use?

I don't know, do you?

[The Straight Story]

6. I guess it was so that he could fit it into the bag

No real info off hand on it though.

[NYC_SKP]

10. I did read that it was broken down, parts in the bag, assembled in the bathroom.

Wouldn't have needed a modification to fit in the bag that way.

I'll bet it's just more bad reporting, they put a pic in there that doesn't represent the actual weapon.

[rdharma]

9. Straight Speculation nt

[MiniMe]

12. I found out today that I know one of the victims wife

Quite a shock.