The video begins innocuously enough. A blue Toyota Prius rental car pulls into the parking garage of the Washington navy yard at 7.53am on 16 September, then a man wearing a blue striped shirt with a backpack over his shoulder enters building number 197.
Suddenly, the mundane events of an ordinary Monday morning turn to images of horror. In the next clip the man is captured walking down a corridor, apparently calmly, with a Remington 870 shotgun in his hands. He pokes the barrel of the gun, sawed off for maximum impact, into the offices he passes at the start of the one-hour rampage that would end with the killing of 12 random victims, four wounded survivors and his own death.
The man is Aaron Alexis, 34, the shooter in the Washington navy yard tragedy who was trapped in the delusion, FBI agents said, that he was controlled by Extremely Low Frequency (ELF) electromagnetic waves. Stills images released by the bureau give clues to that delusion, and that he was prepared to die in carrying out his actions.
Etched into the left side of the receiver of the gun was the expression: "My ELF weapon!" Alongside it was the phrase: "Better off this way!" On the other side of the receiver the sentence had been scratched: "Not what y'all say!" And on the barrel itself was written: "End to the torment!"
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/sep/25/fbi-aaron-alexis-video-washington-attack
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