Pensacola shooter ‘held mass-shooting feast’ the place fellow Saudi college students watched disturbing movies – report

The Saudi gunman who killed three folks at a US naval base in Florida on Friday had reportedly held a cocktail party days earlier, at which company watched video footage of mass shootings.

At the least ten Saudi army college students had been being held at Naval Air Station Pensacola and a number of other extra had been “unaccounted for” after the Friday taking pictures that left a minimum of three useless and eight injured, an nameless US official informed AP on Saturday.

Whereas the gunman was shot on the spot, the supply mentioned that one other pupil videotaped the scene of the taking pictures on Friday, whereas one other two watched from inside a automobile. All three are reportedly Saudi nationals, who had been within the US to coach on the base.

Disturbingly, all three are mentioned to have attended a “feast” with the shooter, at which they watched movies of gun violence.

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The gunman allegedly posted a manifesto to Twitter shortly earlier than his rampage, accusing the US of waging a “struggle of attrition” on Muslims all over the world, and condemning its drone strikes and secret prisons.

The authorities have been tight-lipped on particulars in regards to the high-profile taking pictures and the FBI is probing whether or not the shooter was half of a bigger group. Media stories have recognized the gunman as Mohammed Saeed Alshamrani. An unnamed Pentagon official informed Fox Information that he was a member of the Saudi Air Power, who was scheduled to finish a three-year, Saudi-funded coaching program within the US. 

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Although the FBI has not but publicly commented on the shooter’s motivations, Florida Senator Rick Scott known as the assault – which left three folks killed and eight folks wounded – an act of terrorism.

“Whether or not this particular person was motivated by radical Islam or was merely mentally unstable, this was an act of terrorism,” he wrote in an announcement.

I'm very involved that the shooter in Pensacola was a international nationwide coaching on a US base.

Immediately, I’m calling for a full evaluation of the US army applications to coach international nationals on American soil. We shouldn't be offering army coaching to individuals who want us hurt. pic.twitter.com/JkypdikYI9

— Rick Scott (@SenRickScott) December 6, 2019

Protection Secretary Mark Esper later said that he “cannot say” at current whether or not the assault was certainly an act of terror, and requested that investigators be allowed do their work. 

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