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The Saudi national who killed three people Friday morning after opening fire in a classroom at a naval air station in Florida reportedly hosted a dinner party the previous night where it was said he played videos of mass shootings, a U.S. official said Saturday.
Mohammed Saeed Alshamrani, who was identified as a member of the Saudi military participating in a flight training program for foreign military personnel at Naval Air Station Pensacola, was killed by law enforcement after he fatally shot three people in what investigators are trying to determine was an attack motivated by terrorism.
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While the FBI has declined to name the suspect or elaborate on a possible motive, a U.S. official, speaking on the condition of anonymity, told The Associated Press that federal investigators told him Alshamrani hosted a dinner party the night before to watch videos of mass shootings.
It wasn’t immediately clear if the shooter acted alone but the U.S. official said authorities also told him that one Saudi student stood outside the building recording while the shooting took place.
10 Saudi students are being held at the base while several others remain unaccounted for, the official continued.
President Trump has remained inline with the FBI in decline to say if the attack was terror-related.
Florida U.S. Sen. Rick Scott, however, issued a scathing statement calling the shooting an act of terrorism “whether this individual was motivated by radical Islam or was simply mentally unstable.”
Alshamrani reportedly posted a short manifesto to Twitter in which he condemned the U.S. as a “nation of evil.”
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
