MASS SHOOTINGS/MILITARY/SAUDI ARABIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump confirmed that the suspected shooter who killed three people and wounded at least eight others at a Naval base in Pensacola on Friday [12-6-19] morning was a Saudi national and announced that he’d spoken with the kingdom’s ruler about the attack…Members of the Saudi royal family, including the king, expressed their condolences and condemnation of the attack in a statement sent out by the Saudi embassy…The name of the suspect in Friday’s shooting has not yet been released, but Escambia County Sheriff David Morgan announced the shooter was killed by sheriff’s deputies who responded to the scene. According to Morgan, his office received a report of an active shooter at Naval Air Station Pensacola just before 7 a.m. Two deputies arrived to the scene not long after, when they exchanged gunfire with the shooter and ultimately killed him, he said during a press conference.”
–Caitlin Oprysko, “Trump passes along Saudi king’s ‘sympathies’ after Saudi national kills 3 at naval base,” Politico, December 6, 2019 2:57 pm