DC Shooting: 13 Killed Including Gunman

Aimee Herd : Sep 16, 2013
News Staff – FOX News, AP

UPDATE-2PM PT-FOX NEWS: A gunman suspected in the killing of 12 people at a Navy building in Washington Monday morning has been identified as Aaron Alexis, 34, a Navy veteran from New York, Fox News has learned.

Alexis, who was discharged from the Navy within the last few years after serving hitches in Texas and Illinois, sprayed bullets from the third or fourth floor down to an open area in the Naval Sea Systems Command headquarters in southeast Washington in an attack that began just after 8 a.m. He was later killed as he traded shots with responding police.

(Monday Morning, Washington, DC)—On Monday morning, there was a shooting at a Naval Sea Systems Command building in Washington, DC, in which at least 12 were said to have been killed.(Photo: CNN.com)

Around 8:20am Navy officials reported that at least one suspected shooter was "down," and police were said to be looking for additional suspected gunmen.

The AP reported that there may have been as many as 12 who were killed in the rampage. (Photo: Getty Images/CNN)

Survivors told FOX News that one of the shooters looked to be a tall, African-American man, "We were looking," the witness described, "but he was down the hall far enough that we couldn't see a face. But we saw him hold the rifle and then we saw him raise it and aim in our direction."

Police, Navy officials and ATF members were at the scene and continuing to investigate, as well as looking for additional shooters.