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Peyton Manning Visits Military Personnel, Police at Site of Chattanooga Shootings

Peyton Manning
Peyton Manning / AP
July 20, 2015

Peyton Manning visited military personnel and police officers at one of the sites of the Chattanooga, Tenn., terror attack last week.

Local Tennessee news station WRCB reported that Manning, who played quarterback at the University of Tennessee before advancing on to a career as an award-winning NFL player, traveled to the Naval Marine Corps Reserve Center in Chattanooga on Saturday night.

The Denver Broncos quarterback allegedly visited with officers and personnel on the scene, which Saturday was still being investigated by federal officials.

Photos later surfaced on social media of Manning meeting with police officers.

Four U.S. Marines were shot and killed Thursday when alleged gunman Muhammad Youssef Abdulazeez opened fire on the reserve center after shooting at the nearby Army Recruiting Center from his car.

The fifth victim, a sailor, died early Saturday of his injuries. A police officer and a Marine Corps recruiter were also wounded in the attack.

Federal investigators continue to treat the attacks as a domestic terrorism incident.

According to law enforcement sources, the suspected shooter, who died in the rampage Thursday, told his colleagues that he had visited a shooting range as recently as June where he and friends shot rifles, pistols, and BB guns.

Abdulazeez was born in Kuwait before becoming a naturalized U.S. citizen. Investigators said he has traveled to Jordan multiple times, one of the trips occurring as recently as last year.

While officials said Abdulazeez was not listed on any U.S. terror watch list, his father, Youssuf Abdulazeez, was investigated twice in an FBI terror funding investigation but was cleared of wrongdoing.