WASHINGTON — The former Navy reservist who killed 12 people at the Washington Navy Yard had been hearing voices and was being treated for mental illness in the weeks before the shooting rampage, but was not stripped of his security clearance, officials said Tuesday.


Aaron Alexis, a 34-year-old information technology employee with a defense contractor, used a valid pass to get into the highly secured installation Monday morning and started firing inside a building, the FBI said. He was killed in a gun battle with police.


The motive for the mass shooting – the deadliest on a military installation in the U.S. since the attack at Fort Hood, Texas, in 2009 – was a mystery, investigators said.


U.S. law enforcement officials told The Associated Press that there was no known connection to terrorism and that investigators have found no manifesto or other writings suggesting a political or religious motive.


Alexis had been suffering a host of serious mental problems, including paranoia and a sleep disorder, and had been hearing voices in his head, according to the officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity because the criminal investigation was still going on.


He had been treated since August by Veterans Affairs, the officials said.


The Navy had not declared him mentally unfit, which would have rescinded a security clearance Alexis had from his earlier time in the Navy Reserves.


The assault is likely to raise more questions about the adequacy of the background checks done on contract employees and others who are issued security clearances – an issue that came up most recently with National Security Agency leaker Edward Snowden, an IT employee with a government contractor.


In the hours after the Navy Yard attack, a profile of Alexis began coming into focus.



A Buddhist convert who had also had flare-ups of rage, Alexis, a black man who grew up in New York City and whose last known address was in Fort Worth, Texas, complained about the Navy and being a victim of discrimination. He also had run-ins with the law over shootings in 2004 and 2010 in Texas and Seattle, and was ticketed for disorderly conduct after being thrown out of a metro Atlanta nightclub in 2008.


Alexis' bouts of insubordination, disorderly conduct and being absent from work without authorization prompted the Navy to grant him an early – but honorable – discharge in 2011 after nearly four years as a full-time reservist, authorities said. During his service, he repaired aircraft electrical systems at Fort Worth.


In addition to those killed at the Navy Yard attack, eight people were hurt, including three who were shot and wounded, authorities. Those three were a police officer and two female civilians, authorities said. They were all expected to survive.


The dead ranged in age from 46 to 73, officials said. A number of the victims were civilian employees and contractors, rather than active-duty military personnel.


Those killed included: Michael Arnold, 59, a Navy veteran and avid pilot who was building a light airplane at his home; Sylvia Frasier, 53, who worked in computer security; Kathleen Gaarde, 63, a financial analyst; and Frank Kohler, 50, a former president of the Rotary Club in Lexington Park, Md., who proudly reigned as "King Oyster" at the region's annual seafood festival.


Monday's onslaught at a single building at the Navy Yard unfolded about 8:20 a.m. in the heart of the nation's capital, less than four miles from the White House and two miles from the Capitol. It put all of Washington on edge.


"This is a horrific tragedy," Mayor Vincent Gray said.


Law enforcement officials said Alexis used a shotgun and two handguns, but not an AR-15 assault rifle, as authorities previously reported. He bought the shotgun and took the handguns away from law officers at the scene, an official said.


For much of the day Monday, authorities said they were looking for a possible second attacker who may have been disguised in an olive-drab military-style uniform. But by late Monday night, they said they were convinced the shooting was the work of a lone gunman, and the lockdown around the area was eased.


"We do now feel comfortable that we have the single and sole person responsible for the loss of life inside the base today," Washington Police Chief Cathy Lanier said.


President Barack Obama lamented yet another mass shooting in the U.S. that he said took the lives of American "patriots." He promised to make sure "whoever carried out this cowardly act is held responsible."


The FBI took charge of the investigation.


The attack came four years after Army psychiatrist Maj. Nidal Hasan killed 13 people at Fort Hood in what he said was an effort to save the lives of Muslims overseas. He was convicted last month and sentenced to death.


At the time of the rampage, Alexis was an employee with The Experts, a company that was a Defense Department subcontractor on a Navy-Marine Corps computer project, authorities said.


Valerie Parlave, head of the FBI's field office in Washington, said Alexis had access to the Navy Yard as a defense contractor and used a valid pass.


The Washington Navy Yard is a sprawling, 41-acre labyrinth of buildings and streets protected by armed guards and metal detectors, and employees have to produce their IDs at doors and gates. More than 18,000 people work there.


The rampage took place at Building 197, the headquarters for Naval Sea Systems Command, which buys, builds and maintains ships and submarines. About 3,000 people work at headquarters, many of them civilians.


Witnesses on Monday described a gunman opening fire from a fourth-floor overlook, aiming down on people on the main floor, which includes a glass-walled cafeteria. Others said a gunman fired at them in a third-floor hallway.


Patricia Ward, a logistics-management specialist, said she was in the cafeteria getting breakfast.


"It was three gunshots straight in a row – pop, pop, pop. Three seconds later, it was pop, pop, pop, pop, pop, so it was like about a total of seven gunshots, and we just started running," Ward said.


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Associated Press writers Matt Apuzzo, Adam Goldman, Jesse Holland, Stacy A. Anderson, Brian Witte and Ben Nuckols in Washington contributed to this report.





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  • Navy Yard Shooter Alleged Suspect Aaron Alexis


    UNKNOWN, UNSPECIFIED - SEPTEMBER 16: In this handout photo provided by the FBI, Aaron Alexis is shown in a photo prior to the mass shooting at the Washington Navy Yard on September 16, 2013 in Washington, D.C. Authorities believe Alexis was a gunman involved in the shootings at the Navy Yard, where at least 12 people were shot and killed. (Photo by FBI via Getty Images)




  • Family and friends wait to greet staff of the Naval Sea Systems Command headquarters as they are bused from the Washington Navy Yard to Nationals Park, in Washington, Monday, Sept. 16, 2013. At least one gunman launched an attack inside the Washington Navy Yard, spraying gunfire on office workers in the cafeteria and in the hallways at the heavily secured military installation in the heart of the nation's capital, authorities said. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)




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  • Nii Oti-Ankrah, left, kisses his wife Sally Appiah-Ankrah as he holds their son Eilam Ankrah after she was evacuated from building 197 at the Washington Navy Yard, Monday Sept. 16, 2013 in Washington. At least one gunman launched an attack inside the Washington Navy Yard, spraying gunfire on office workers in the cafeteria and in the hallways at the heavily secured military installation in the heart of the nation's capital, authorities said. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)




  • An officer who said he works for the Department of Defense, right, checks an id outside of the closed Washington Navy Yard in Washington, on Tuesday, Sept. 17, 2013, the day after a gunman launched an attack inside the Washington Navy Yard on Monday, spraying gunfire on office workers in the cafeteria and in the hallways at the heavily secured military installation in the heart of the nation's capital. Only essential personnel were being permitted inside, according the authorities. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)




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  • Shooting At Washington DC Navy Yard Reportedly Leaves Several Wounded


    WASHINGTON, DC - SEPTEMBER 16: Family members of Navy Yard complex employees gather outside a parking lot that was converted to a point of reunion at Nationals Park in the wake of the Navy Yard shooting September 16, 2013 in Washington, DC. Police believe at least one gunman shot and killed 12 people and wounded others in an incident that put parts of the city on lockdown. (Photo by Win McNamee/Getty Images)




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  • A small group holds a candle light vigil on Freedom Plaza to remember the victims of the shooting at the Washington Navy Yard, Monday, Sept. 16, 2013, in Washington. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)




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  • US-MILITARY-SHOOTING


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  • Shooting At Washington DC Navy Yard Reportedly Leaves Several Wounded


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  • US-MILITARY-SHOOTING


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  • US-MILITARY-SHOOTING


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  • US-MILITARY-SHOOTING


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  • US-MILITARY-SHOOTING


    Police tactical units leave after responding to a shooting at the Navy Yard in Washington, DC, September 16, 2013. A shooting rampage at the Washington naval base claimed at least 12 lives including that of an unidentified gunman, city police chief Cathy Lanier told reporters Monday. Lanier said two more potential suspects were still at large after the shooting at the Washington Naval Yard and that the motive of the shooter or shooters was not yet known. 'We are confirming 12 fatalities. We had a few additional victims who were injured. They were not fatally injured,' she said, briefing reporters on a street by the base. Lanier gave more details on two male suspects seen near the scene of the shooting, a headquarters building within the riverside base, who police are hunting. AFP PHOTO / Saul LOEB (Photo credit should read SAUL LOEB/AFP/Getty Images)




  • US-MILITARY-SHOOTING


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  • US-MILITARY-SHOOTING


    An unidentified woman is reunited at the family gathering site outside parking lot B of Nationals Park, which has been set as a gathering point for families of the Navy Yard shootings in Washington DC on September 16, 2013. The shooting rampage at a Washington naval base claimed at least 12 lives including that of an unidentified gunman, city police chief Cathy Lanier told reporters Monday. Lanier said two more potential suspects were still at large after the shooting at the Washington Naval Yard and that the motive of the shooter or shooters was not yet known. 'We are confirming 12 fatalities. We had a few additional victims who were injured. They were not fatally injured,' she said, briefing reporters on a street by the base. Lanier gave more details on two male suspects seen near the scene of the shooting, a headquarters building within the riverside base, who police are hunting. AFP PHOTO/MANDEL NGAN (Photo credit should read MANDEL NGAN/AFP/Getty Images)




  • US-MILITARY-SHOOTING


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  • US-MILITARY-SHOOTING


    A US Park Police helicopter patrols over the US Navy yard September 16, 2013 in Washington, DC. At least one unidentified gunman opened fire at the US Navy Yard in Washington on Monday and was at large after killing 'multiple' victims and wounding several more, officials said. Police and FBI agents descended on the area in force as helicopters swarmed overhead, amid reports a shooter was armed with an assault rifle and was holed up at the complex. 'We believe there were multiple deaths,' a US defense official, speaking on condition of anonymity, told AFP. The precise death toll remained unclear, the official said. A Washington DC police officer and another law enforcement officer had been shot while the gunman had allegedly barricaded himself in a room in a headquarters building, media reported. AFP PHOTO/Paul J. Richards (Photo credit should read PAUL J. RICHARDS/AFP/Getty Images)




  • Shooting At Washington DC Navy Yard Reportedly Leaves Several Wounded


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  • Armed police prepare to enter the Washington Navy Yard as they respond to a shooting in Washington, Monday, Sept. 16, 2013. At least one gunman opened fire inside a building at the Navy yard. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)




  • A U.S. Park Police helicopter removes a man in a basket from the Washington Navy Yard Monday, Sept. 16, 2013. Earlier in the day, the U.S. Navy said it was searching for an active shooter at the Naval Sea Systems Command headquarters, where about 3,000 people work. The exact number of people killed and the conditions of those wounded was not immediately known. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)




  • Police work the scene on M Street S.E. in Washington, where a gunman was reported in a military building at the Washington Navy Yard Monday, Sept. 16, 2013. Shots have been fired and employees directed to a shelter. Police and federal agents from multiple law enforcement agencies responded to the scene and streets in the area were closed. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)




  • A police boat patrols near the scene of a shooting at the Washington Navy Yard on Monday, Sept. 16, 2013, in Washington. At least one gunman opened fire inside a building at the Washington Navy Yard on Monday morning. (AP Photo/ Evan Vucci)




  • Cathy Lanier


    District of Columbia Police Chief Cathy Lanier briefs reporters on the shooting at the Washington Navy Yard in Washington, Monday, Sept. 16, 2013, where at least one gunman opened fire inside a building at the Washington Navy Yard. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)




  • Police respond to the report of a shooting at the Navy Yard in Washington, DC, September 16, 2013. A gunman shot and wounded at least one person Monday in a headquarters building at the US Navy Yard in Washington and is still at large, the navy said.'There is one confirmed injury. Emergency personnel are on scene and a 'shelter in place' order has been issued for Navy Yard personnel,' the navy said in a statement. Local television reported that there were as many as five casualties and the Navy said that police had entered building number 197 in search of the shooter. The Navy said at least three shots were fired at 8:20 am (1320 GMT) in the headquarters building of the Naval Sea Systems Command. AFP PHOTO / Saul LOEB (Photo credit should read SAUL LOEB/AFP/Getty Images)




  • Washington Navy Yard


    A U.S. Park Police helicopter flies over a building at the Washington Navy Yard in Washington, Monday, Sept. 16, 2013. President Barack Obama is mourning what he called "yet another mass shooting" in the United States that he says took the life of American patriots. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)




  • Police Work The Scene


    Police work the scene on M Street, SE in Washington, where a gunman was reported at the Washington Navy Yard in Washington, on Monday, Sept. 16, 2013. The U.S. Navy says one person is injured after a shooting at a Navy building in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)




  • A U.S. Park Police helicopter removes a man in a basket from the Washington Navy Yard Monday, Sept. 16, 2013. Earlier in the day, the U.S. Navy said it was searching for an active shooter at the Naval Sea Systems Command headquarters, where about 3,000 people work. The exact number of people killed and the conditions of those wounded was not immediately known. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)




  • Police Work The Scene


    Police work the scene on M Street, SE in Washington near the Washington Navy Yard on Monday, Sept. 16, 2013. The U.S. Navy says one person is injured after a shooting at a Navy building in Washington. Police and emergency crews gathered Monday morning outside the Naval Sea Systems Command Headquarters building, where the shooting was reported. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)




  • Police respond to the report of a shooting at the Navy Yard in Washington, DC, September 16, 2013. A gunman shot and wounded at least one person Monday in a headquarters building at the US Navy Yard in Washington and is still at large, the navy said.'There is one confirmed injury. Emergency personnel are on scene and a 'shelter in place' order has been issued for Navy Yard personnel,' the navy said in a statement. Local television reported that there were as many as five casualties and the Navy said that police had entered building number 197 in search of the shooter. The Navy said at least three shots were fired at 8:20 am (1320 GMT) in the headquarters building of the Naval Sea Systems Command. AFP PHOTO / Saul LOEB (Photo credit should read SAUL LOEB/AFP/Getty Images)




  • Police respond to the report of a shooting at the Navy Yard in Washington, DC, September 16, 2013. A gunman shot and wounded at least one person Monday in a headquarters building at the US Navy Yard in Washington and is still at large, the navy said.'There is one confirmed injury. Emergency personnel are on scene and a 'shelter in place' order has been issued for Navy Yard personnel,' the navy said in a statement. Local television reported that there were as many as five casualties and the Navy said that police had entered building number 197 in search of the shooter. The Navy said at least three shots were fired at 8:20 am (1320 GMT) in the headquarters building of the Naval Sea Systems Command. AFP PHOTO / Saul LOEB (Photo credit should read SAUL LOEB/AFP/Getty Images)




  • Scene At The Gate Of Navy Yard




  • Police respond to the report of a shooting at the Navy Yard in Washington, DC, September 16, 2013. A gunman shot and wounded at least one person Monday in a headquarters building at the US Navy Yard in Washington and is still at large, the navy said.'There is one confirmed injury. Emergency personnel are on scene and a 'shelter in place' order has been issued for Navy Yard personnel,' the navy said in a statement. Local television reported that there were as many as five casualties and the Navy said that police had entered building number 197 in search of the shooter. The Navy said at least three shots were fired at 8:20 am (1320 GMT) in the headquarters building of the Naval Sea Systems Command. AFP PHOTO / Saul LOEB (Photo credit should read SAUL LOEB/AFP/Getty Images)




  • Outside Navy Yard




  • Police Clear Block




  • Looking Up M Street




  • Members of the military guard a military garage near the Washington Navy Yard where a gunman was reported in Washington, on Monday, Sept. 16, 2013. The exact number of people killed and the conditions of those wounded was not immediately known. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)




  • A helicopter that has been airlifting people from the top of a building at the Washington Navy Yard circles the area after a gunman was reported at the Washington Navy Yard in Washington, on Monday, Sept. 16, 2013. The exact number of people killed and the conditions of those wounded was not immediately known. About 3,000 people work at the Naval Sea Systems Command headquarters. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)




  • Police bring in equipment by an anchor outside of an entrance to the Washington Navy Yard where a gunman was reported in Washington, on Monday, Sept. 16, 2013. The exact number of people killed and the conditions of those wounded was not immediately known. About 3,000 people work at the Naval Sea Systems Command headquarters. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)




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  • Shooting At Washington DC Navy Yard Reportedly Leaves Several Wounded


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  • Shooting At Washington DC Navy Yard Reportedly Leaves Several Wounded


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  • Shooting At Washington DC Navy Yard Reportedly Leaves Several Wounded


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