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http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/aaron-alexis-34-is-dead-gunman-in-navy-yard-shooting-authorities-say/2013/09/16/dcf431ce-1f07-11e3-8459-657e0c72fec8_story.html?Post+generic=%3Ftid%3Dsm_twitter_washingtonpost

The dead gunman in Monday’s shooting at the Washington Navy Yard is Aaron Alexis, 34, a native of Brooklyn who lived until recently in Texas, according to law enforcement sources.

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A friend said Alexis loved Buddhism.

“He loved to go to temple, go to meditate in Thai and English,” the friend said. “He could do both of them.”