A disturbing pattern of violence: How did Aaron Alexis get Navy contract work?

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— A 2010 mugshot of Alexis appears online after an infraction with the law over discharging a firearm. The Los Angeles Times reported that following that incident, Alexis was kicked out of the U.S. Navy, in which he had served since 2007.

— On Sept. 4, 2010, Alexis was charged in connection with a shooting at his apartment complex on Oak Hill Circle. According to the Fort Worth Star-Telegram, a resident reported that Alexis, who lived below, had shot at her through the floor. Alexis was arrested but, according to the Tarrant County Criminal Courts administrator’s office, no court case was filed.

— 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, the Star-Telegram reports.


— Six years earlier, he had been arrested on a gun charge following an incident in Seattle. On May 6, 2004, two construction workers had parked their 1986 Honda Accord adjacent to a home where Alexis was staying. “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,” according to the Seattle Police Department Blotter.

— “Alexis also claimed he had an anger-fueled ‘blackout,’ and could not remember firing his gun at the victims’ vehicle until an hour after the incident,” the SPD Blotter reports.


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