Tampa family sues U.S. government in wake of D.C. Navy Yard shooting

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worked as an aviation electrician's mate third class whose work focused on nonavionics electrical systems of Navy aircraft. 115. From 2008 to 2011, Shooter Alexis Served with Fleet Logistics Support Squadron 46 at the Naval Air Station Joint Reserve Base in Fort Worth, Texas. Alexis worked on C-40s, a military version of the Boeing 737 that the Navy uses as a cargo plane. 116. Alexis was discharged from the Navy in 2011 after the Navy charged Alexis with a "pattern of misconduct" of at least eight episodes including insubordination, disorderly conduct, unauthorized absences from work and drunkenness. His rank was petty officer third class. 117. After leaving the naval reserves, Alexis worked part-time as a waiter and delivery driver at the Happy Bowl Thai Restaurant In White Settlement, a suburb of Fort Worth, Texas. 118. Aaron Alexis' enlisted in the U.S. Naval Reserve on May 5, 2007 at the United States Military Entrance Processing Station (MEPS) in Brooklyn, NY. Prior to that time the Department of the Navy knew or reasonably should have known that shooter Aaron Alexis could foreseeably engage in acts of malicious shooting violence leading to injury or death. For instance, three years prior to his enlistment, Alexis was arrested in Seattle, WA and charged with malicious mischief shooting the tires of a construction workers vehicle on June 3, 2004. Page 51 of 96

Delorenzo v. United States of America, et al Complaint for Damages and Demand for Jury Trial


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