Chattanooga shooter's family says he suffered from depression

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published 19 July 2015

The gunman who fatally shot five service members at a Chattanooga, Tennessee, military center this week suffered from depression, CNN reports his family said in a statement Saturday.

"It grieves us beyond belief to know that his pain found its expression in this heinous act of violence," the family said of Mohammod Youssuf Abdulazeez, 24, who was shot to death by police on the scene, in their first public comments.

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Julie Kliegman is a freelance writer based in New York. Her work has appeared in BuzzFeed, Vox, Mental Floss, Paste, the Tampa Bay Times and PolitiFact. Her cats can do somersaults.

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