Haslam calls Chattanooga 'a great city with a broken heart'

Associated Press file photoRepublican Gov. Bill Haslam speaks on April 23 at the state Capitol in Nashville.
Associated Press file photoRepublican Gov. Bill Haslam speaks on April 23 at the state Capitol in Nashville.

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Gov. Bill Haslam late Thursday night called Chattanooga "a great city with a broken heart."

The governor stood with Mayor Andy Berke, former mayor and now U.S. Sen. Bob Corker and a panoply of federal officials at an unusual 11 p.m. news conference about 12 hours after a gunman killed four Marines in an unexplained attack.

U.S. Attorney Bill Killian and FBI Regional Special Agent in Charge Ed Reinhold revealed little that was new about the shooting by Mohammad Youssuf Abdulazeez.

Reinhold said no one else has been taken into custody and said two women who were taken out of the shooter's Hixson home were not placed in custody.

They also said the decision whether to release the names of the dead Marines will be up to the Department of Defense.

Reinhold said another news conference will be held at 3 p.m. today. He asked anyone with any information to call 865-602-7582.

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