Lance Cpl. Skip Wells (left) and Gunnery Sgt. Thomas J. Sullivan were two of the four Marines killed in shootings at a Navy and Marines facility in Chattanooga on Thursday.
A sailor who was wounded in the Chattanooga, Tenn., gun rampage died early Saturday, becoming the fifth fatality in the shootings, the U.S. Navy said.
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Smith, 26, was shot three times while working as a logistics specialist at the Navy Operational Support Center, where four Marines were slaughtered in a barrage of bullets, his family said.
The sailor succumbed to his wounds at 2:17 a.m. Saturday, days after he tried reassuring his wife Angie he was OK after undergoing surgery, the U.S. Navy and his family said.
Randall Smith, 24, died from a mass shooting at Chattanooga, Tenn., on July 18, 2015. Smith was a logistics specialist in the U.S. Navy at the time of the shooting by Mohammad Abdulazeez.
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Updated: Saturday, July 18, 2015, 11:58 AM
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A gunnery sergeant and Purple Heart recipient from Massachusetts who served two tours in Iraq.
A staff sergeant from Chattanooga who leaves behind his wife and two kids.
A sergeant from Wisconsin who returned from a lengthy deployment a year ago.
And a young lance corporal from Georgia who served as an artilleryman.
The few, the proud lost these four Marines at the hands of Mohammad Youssef Abdulazeez, who sprayed bullets at a Navy and Marines facility in Chattanooga on Thursday.
Decorated Gunnery Sgt. Thomas J. Sullivan, 40, of Hampden, Mass., was remembered and mourned by family, friends and comrades in arms.
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