Last Thursday, Mohammad Youssuf Abdulazeez was carrying 30-round magazines when he opened fire at the glass doors of a military recruiting center in a strip mall. The gunman  was driving in a rented silver Ford Mustang convertible, moved on to his next target  a few miles away: a Naval reserve center.

There, he rammed into a gate at some point during his shooting rampage and was eventually killed by police, a U.S. official said. , according to a

According to CNN, the gunman was a grappler:

Abdulazeez also once trained as a fighter under coach Almir Dizdarevic. They knew each other from mosques they attended, even after the training relationship ended. They would bump into each other and chat, or Dizdarevic would speak with his family.

He had heard his former athlete moved to the Middle East a year or so ago.

“He went back home and he stayed overseas,” Dizdarevic said. “And I asked his dad about, you know, where’s Mohammad? I haven’t seen him in a while, and he said, ‘He moved back home.'”

 

Abdulazeez was reportedly an avid wrestler in high school and moved onto mixed-martial-arts and No Gi grappling after graduating.

Abdulazeez won silver at the North American Grappling Championships (NAGA) a few years ago.

One of his wrestling teammates spoke highly of Abdulazeez to the Times Free Press.

“He was an unbelievable nice person. He was honestly one of the funniest guys I’ve ever met,” says Ryan Smith.

 

According to Smith, Abdulazeez and his family were very religious.

“His family, they all wore the drapes and stuff, all the women in his family wore the little hoods.”