U.S President Donald Trump said that Saudi Arabia’s King Salman called him to send condolences and his sympathy to the victims. Florida Governor Ron DeSantis said that the suspect was a Saudi national attending training at the base as part of long-standing Navy program open to U.S. allies. The Saudi trainees went “through the same student naval aviator or aircrew training that their U.S. Navy counterparts experience,” the press release said. Sheriff’s officials said one of the three victims died after being taken to the hospital, but it was unclear whether that victim was one of the eight who arrived at Baptist. On Wednesday, a sailor shot three civilians at the historic Pearl Harbor military base in Hawaii, killing two of them before taking his own life.

Source: National Post December 06, 2019 20:22 UTC