14 DAY TRIAL // Officials have arrested a Tennessee National Guard for shooting two people at the National Guard Armory in Millington on Thursday.
The Navy base was on lockdown yesterday, as authorities searched for the shooter of two National Guardsmen. WMC-TV reported that the suspect injured his commanding officers.
While the FBI has not released the name of the gunman, he was arrested in his home in Cordova. Neighbors mention that the suspect is Sergeant First Class Amos Patton.
"I want to send out my sincere concern to the families of the two soldiers, guardsmen, that we had injured.
"We hope that the two victims will soon be recovered and soon be back to work," Major General Max Haston, Tennessee National Guard, says in a statement.
He mentions that one of the people injured in the incident is an Iraq veteran. Major Jeff Crawford took a bullet through the thigh and a sergeant was shot in the foot. A third guardsman suffered a shallow wound to his arm.
"I know both of the individuals who was injured, I know that the Major and I were in Iraq together in 2005," Haston says.
Patton was called in for an administrative meeting and, at one point, he went to his car and returned with a computer bag and waist pack.
He asked permission to use the restroom and, after being told that he would have to leave the computer bag there, he pulled a gun out of the waist pack and shot the commanders.
A semi-automatic 380 pistol was used in the shooting, sources say. The victims have been hospitalized with non-life-threatening injuries.
"I'm sure there could have been more injury if they hadn't taken him in custody or gotten him restrained," Millington Police Chief Stanback explains.
"It concerns me today what's happened all over the world, Washington D.C., that Washington Naval Yard, you never think something like this will happen on your watch, in good ol' Tennessee here. But it did happen," Haston adds.