HONOLULU (AP) – The U.S. Navy sailor who fatally shot two people at Pearl Harbor before killing himself was unhappy with his commanders and had been undergoing counseling, a U.S. military official said Friday.
The sailor, Gabriel Romero, 22, also faced non-judicial punishment, which is a lower-level administrative process for minor misconduct, said the official, who spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss personnel matters not made public.
Romero also wounded another person in Wednesday’s attack at a naval shipyard before turning the gun on himself at the storied military base, officials have said.
In a second attack at a Navy base this week, a shooter opened fire in a classroom building Friday at Naval Air Station Pensacola in Florida – leaving four people dead, including the assailant, and multiple people wounded.
The Pearl Harbor shooting came just days before Saturday’s ceremony to remember those lost in the attack on Pearl Harbor 78 years ago, when security will be beefed up.