Naval Station Norfolk Shooting Leaves 2 Dead: Report

[jakeXT]

Source: Huffington Post

At least two people were killed on Monday night in a shooting at Naval Station Norfolk in Virginia.

According to the station's official Facebook fan page, which is sponsored by Naval Station Norfolk, the incident occurred at approximately 11:20 p.m. at Pier 1.

Public Affairs Officer Terri Davis reportedly told WAVY TV 10 that a sailor and a civilian were the fatalities.

No other injuries were reported.

Read more: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/03/25/naval-station-norfolk-shooting_n_5025602.html

[Judi Lynn]

1. Sad, stupid disrespect for human beings. n/t

[jtuck004]

2. Said on board the USS Mahan, a sailor and a civilian.

A civilian on board a destroyer?

That didn't happen much in '73, too much security. Is it more common now, or is this someone from another govt agency?

[MADem]

3. What the hell? Who's giving a little "let me show you my workplace" tour at round midnight?

Who's watching the damn quarterdeck? Sleepy or Snoozy McWhoGivesAShit?

Davis said that the two killed were both males but that she did not have any other information on them. She said she could not say whether the civilian had permission to be aboard the ship. No other injuries were reported.
The base — the largest naval installation in the world — was briefly put on lockdown after the shooting as a precaution, but the lockdown was later lifted. Operations have returned to normal at the base, with counselors available, the Navy said in a news release, but enlisted sailors on the Mahan were not to report to duty Tuesday.
To get on the base, civilians must be escorted or have a pass....

More here: http://wavy.com/2014/03/25/two-dead-after-shooting-at-pier-at-naval-station-norfolk/

The civilian shot the sailor, and the base security forces shot the civilian.

[Ex Lurker]

4. Lots of civilians on Naval bases and ships nowadays

Contractors of all kinds. My BIL deployed on an aircraft carrier as a tech rep for Lockheed Martin.

[virgdem]

5. Very true...

my husband was a civilian contractor for 7 years and went on many trips aboard aircraft carriers. He was onboard the Enterprise when 911 happened. Civilians can be found onboard naval vessels for many reasons, but mostly for assist to ships systems and depot level repairs.

[jtuck004]

7. An aircraft carrier I can see, but a destroyer? Perhaps it was for a new

weapons system.

Or could be CIA

[awoke_in_2003]

10. Lots of systems on destroyers...

not every system on a ship is a weapon.

[Blue_Tires]

6. He had to be a contractor

no unauthorized civilian gets that far inside a base without authorization...

[Recursion]

15. The Navy can't maintain most of its weapons systems with sailors anymore

There's contractors on every ship and even some boats now.

Oddly enough, I spent more time on a ship in three years as a Navy contractor than I did in seven years as a Marine.

[hack89]

8. More details - he took the gun from a quarterdeck watch stander

The man was approaching the quarterdeck when sailors working security confronted him, Clark said. During a struggle, the man disarmed the petty officer of the watch, he said.

He used the petty officer's gun to shoot and kill a different sailor who had come to help, Clark said.

"Naval Security Forces then killed the suspect," Clark said.

Clark emphasized that the man was not armed when he entered the base.

http://www.cnn.com/2014/03/25/justice/virginia-navy-shooting/index.html?hpt=hp_t2

[Historic NY]

9. Navy better get this crap squared away...

Washington Navy Yard then this...

[Revanchist]

11. I served 20 years in the Navy

and I can truthfully say I wouldn't have trusted a large number of those I served alongside with a loaded weapon. There's a reason we had Marine detachments on the ships providing security back in the day where we might have or have not been carrying nuclear weapons.

[Kaleva]

13. When I was in the Navy, we weren't allowed to carry a loaded weapon.

That was back in the late 70's and 80's. I don't know if the policy was changed since then.

[Revanchist]

14. I don't remember if it was during my first or second cruise

So it would of been between 89 and 91'ish when we had to send a few of the guys from my squadron to the carrier's Master at Arms to supplement security. One of guys we sent was a hard core drinker, he would down a six-pack every night in the barracks lounge before going to bed and a week into cruise I saw him walking around with a shotgun.

I kept waiting for him to come down with the DT's and start to shoot at imaginary spiders.

[Kild the Radio Star]

12. Military bases are getting almost as dangerous as our schools

[Blue_Tires]

16. UPDATE: Base commander: Sailor killed on Norfolk ship "heroic"

He was a good kid from a humble family who seemed always to want to please his teachers and coaches. He got decent grades and played football and wrestled while in high school in Hagerstown, Md. He wanted to be a cop.

After graduation, Mark Mayo chose his path. He enlisted in the Navy, left home and trained to become a master-at-arms - a military police officer.

The Navy on Wednesday identified Mayo as the sailor who was killed late Monday by a civilian truck driver who passed through security at Norfolk Naval Station, boarded the pierside destroyer Mahan, and wrested a gun from a female sailor standing guard on the deck.

Mayo, who was assigned to the base's security department and patrolling nearby, saw the struggle and rushed to intervene. He was shot while pushing the guard to the ground in an effort to protect her, said Capt. Robert Clark, Norfolk Naval Station's commanding officer.

"It was incredibly extraordinary," Clark said. "He gave his life for hers."

As other sailors came to help, the civilian was shot and killed.



http://hamptonroads.com/2014/03/base-commander-sailor-killed-norfolk-ship-heroic

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Chesapeake man identified as Navy base shooter


The man believed to have shot and killed a sailor aboard a destroyer on Monday was identified today as Jeffrey Tyrone Savage, a 35-year-old felon who was living in Chesapeake.

Savage used his transportation worker credential to drive a semi truck onto Norfolk Naval Station on Monday night and used the same card to walk through another security checkpoint at Pier 1, where he boarded the guided missile destroyer Mahan.

On the ship, Savage stripped a gun from the petty officer of the watch and shot and killed Petty Officer 2nd Class Mark Mayo, a base guard who responded to the scene. Savage was shot and killed in the scuffle. Mayo returned fire, a source close to the investigation said, but its not clear if it was his shot that hit Savage.

This afternoon, Savage was identified as the shooter by Naval Criminal Investigative Service.

NCIS has confirmed Savage had no reason or authorization to be on base, according to a Navy news release.

The security breach at Norfolk Naval Station raises questions about the card Savage used to get on the base. The Transportation Worker Identification Credential, or TWIC, was created a decade ago, primarily to ensure security at civilian marine terminals. The government ID cards are also sometimes used to access military bases.

http://hamptonroads.com/2014/03/chesapeake-man-identified-navy-base-shooter