Shooting at NAS Pensacola, 4 dead including Saudi shooter

Naval Air Station Pensacola (NASP): A Saudi aviation student [what could go wrong] shot and killed three people at the Naval air base on Friday morning. The shooter is also dead, officials announced at a press conference. Investigators are looking into whether the attack is terrorism-related just to show the public that they are not Islamophobic.

The gunman was confronted and sent to meet his 72 virgins by a pair of responding officers. Two people were killed at the scene while a third victim died after being rushed to a local hospital. Seven others suffered injuries and are undergoing treatment, including the two officers, one of whom was shot in the arm and the other in the knee. Both are expected to survive.

“This is a tragic day for the city of Pensacola… we are a military town, our hearts and prayers are connected to all those that serve us every single day,” Pensacola Mayor Grover Robinson told reporters during a press conference Friday. “We will overcome this, but today this is certainly a tragic day,” he added, using a standard cliché reserved for mass shootings.

Further details about the jihad were not immediately available and officials refused to speak about the shooter's identity or possible motive for the jihad. Another press conference is scheduled for later in the afternoon.

"Both gates of NASP are currently secured due to reports of an active shooter," the base posted earlier on its Facebook account.

Police say they first received a call about the shooting at 6:51 a.m.

At 7:48 a.m., police confirmed that the [Saudi] shooter was dead. The base will remain closed until further notice and the FBI, ATF and the U.S. Attorney General's Office are said to be assisting in the investigation.

The incident comes days after a sailor fatally shot two people and injured a third before turning a pistol on himself at Pearl Harbor Naval Shipyard.

NAS Pensacola is home to the Blue Angels and also has the National Naval Aviation Museum on its premises.

It is unknown as to whether the shooter shouted "Allahu akbar!" or was simply thinking it to himself.

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