Navy Yard Shooter Told Police of Hearing Voices Before Rampage
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Six weeks before he opened fire at the Washington Navy Yard, Aaron Alexis complained he was being followed, spoken to and kept awake by unseen harassers, prompting a police officer to warn naval authorities they might have a contractor who was “hearing voices.”
It would be at least the fourth time that Alexis, the 34-year-old technology contractor and former Navy reservist who fatally shot 12 people and injured eight others Sept. 16, would be flagged by law enforcement in the years preceding the massacre without losing the security clearance that allowed him access to military facilities.