Our Gadi Schwartz went to West Virginia for the annual Bridge Day, the one day every year when the New River Gorge Bridge closes off traffic and opens to pedestrians, to allow them to watch BASE jumpers fly 876 feet into the gorge below.
“It could’ve been avoided,” UPS driver Frank Ordonez’s stepfather said. “Other tactics should have been applied and they weren’t applied.”
Today’s deadly shooting in Pensacola follows an incident at Pearl Harbor Naval shipyard on Wednesday, where an active duty sailor killed two people and himself.
Military and law enforcement officials say that Mohamed Saeed Alshamrani was a second lieutenant in the Saudi Arabian Air Force, in Pensacola for flight training.
Officers were on the scene in less than 5 minutes and engaged Mohammed Alshamrani, the suspected shooter, in a gun battle -- ultimately killing him.
