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- Shooting took place on base early Friday morning, sparking a lockdown
- Sources identified the suspected gunman as Saudi Air Force aviation student Mohammed Saeed Alshamrani
- Alshamrani penned a hate-fueled manifesto on Twitter just hours before the attack, according to an intelligence group who tracked down his account
- The manifesto condemned the United States as a 'nation of evil' who 'support, fund and commit crimes against Muslims'
- The Twitter account - now suspended - is said to also feature anti-Israel posts and a quote from al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden
- On Friday evening, six other Saudi nationals were detained for questioning
- It's reported that three of them filmed the shooting as it happened
- Rep Matt Gaetz, a Republican representing Pensacola, called the shooting 'an act of terrorism'
- President Trump tweeted that King Salman told him 'the Saudi people are greatly angered by the barbaric actions of the shooter...'
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