Frightening new video images show Washington Navy Yard killer Aaron Alexis in the midst of his massacre, stealthily hunting 🌃his prey as he moves through ಌthe complex with his sawed-off Remington 870 drawn.
Office workers can be seen stre𓆉am🌸ing through a door at one end of a corridor as the shooter takes cover at the other end.
Alexis then raises his gun and strides puꦓrposefully in their direction.
The 30-second video clip, culled from more than 100 hours of surveillance from multiple security cameras during the horrific S🍎ept. 16 rampage, wa🙈s released Wednesday by the FBI.
The footage begins with the 34-year-old Alexis — wearing a blue polo shir❀t, black pants and an ID card — arriving at the complex in his rented blue Prius.
It also shows him walking through 🥂the entrance of Building 197 with a backpack, bolting down stairs between floors, crouching and pre𓄧ssing himself against walls and checking the safety on his shotgun.
At times he carries the gun 🍎low, raising it when he passes what appear to be office doorways.
Alexis is not firing in any of the released♔ images.
In a span of about an 🍎hour, the Brooklyn-bred former Navy reservist-turned-civilian contractor murdered 12 people before he was killed in a shootout with authorities.
He never intended to make it out of t🌟he building alive.
“There are indicators that Alexis was prepare🎀d to die ꦅduring the attack and that he accepted death as the inevitable consequence of his actions,” the FBI noted in a report of the investigation released with the video.
Surviving shooting victims and family members of the 12 people Alexis killed wඣere alerted before the footage was released.
Despite the d🔴isturbing content, the FBI and Navy officials believe the release of the video was warranted.
“We understandღ the sensitivities,” FBI spokeswoman Lindsay Godwin told Th𒅌e Post. “But we felt it was valuable information.
“Our intent was to clarify the timeline, to show that there was a single shooꩵter, to show that he acted deliberately. It provides a look into ✅his insight and his motivation — he wasn’t lost when he went into that building.”
Tracey Ridgell, whose slain husband Mike, 52, was a front- gate guard at the Naꦓvy Yard building, said it was wrenching to watch the video with her two teen daughters on TV in their Westminster, Md., home.
But, she said, “I’d rather know [what happ🧔ened] th🎃an not know.”
“That was hard to watch. That was hard to see, especi♒ally the part where he’s going through the entrance,” the widow said.
While Mike Ridg🍎ell isn’t seen in the video, he surely said hello as his killer entered the building just before M��ike was slain, Tracey said.
“He said hello to everyone,” she said of her husband, a retired Maryland State Police officer w꧟hose funeral is scheduled for Saturday.
Ridgell said she wanted her daughters, Megan, 19, and Maddi, 17, ꧟to watch the video at her side.
“They’re going to see it anyway, online, and I’d rather they see it with m𒆙e,” she said. “They both saw ✨it. We talked about it and it makes it easier.”
In addition to the video, investigators released other details about the day of the shooting and Alexis, who had a documented hi🅘story of ment𒅌al problems.
The FBI revealed that Alexis left behind “several relevan🐭t communications” that indicated he thought he ౠwas being tormented by magnetic-wave forces.
In one note, Alexis wrote: “Ultra low frequency attack is what I’ve been subjectꦚ to for the last 3 months, and to be perfectly honest that is what has driven me to this.”
There was no indication Alexis was targeting specific workersౠ, invꦕestigators said.
He also etched messages on his Remington shotgun, which he bough🥃t at a Virginia gun store Sept. 14, the FBI said. He bought a hacksaw the same day.
At some point, Alexis sawed off th꧑e barrel and stock of the gun and covered the end of the stock with purple duct tape, investigators said.
A roll of purple tape can be seen in a side pocket of the backpack Alexis left hanging on the b🙈ack of a🐠 men’s-room door before his spree.
He had been assigned to an information-tec🏅hnology job that started on Sept. 💃9 at the Navy Yard, and had been staying at a Residence Inn in DC, the FBI said.
According to the official t𒉰imeline, he pulled into a Navy Yard garage in a rented blue Prius at around 7:53 a.m. the morning of the shootings.
He used his🍌 ID to get into Building 197, then boarded an elevator and got out on the fourth floor before heading to the men’s room, carrying the backpack and a 🌼clipboard, investigators said.
At 8:16 a.m., he came ou♏t of the men’s room without the backpack and carrying the shotgun.
A minute later, he shot his first victim.
About an hour later, he was shot down by cops.
In addition t🎃o the shotgun and backpack, the FBI also recovered a Beretta handgun that Alexis picked up during hi𒆙s rampage.
Timeline of the attack:
- 7:53 a.m. – Alexis’ rental car, a blue Toyota Prius with New York plates, entered Parking Garage #28 at the Washington Navy Yard, located directly across from Building #197.
- 8:08 a.m. – Alexis exited Parking Garage #28 on foot carrying a backpack. Alexis entered Building #197 and proceeded to the elevator.
- 8:09 a.m. – Alexis exited the elevator on the fourth floor and entered the men’s bathroom carrying a backpack and a clipboard.
- 8:15 a.m. – Alexis crossed the hallway into the 4 West area of Building #197 with shotgun, but without the backpack or a clipboard.
- 8:16 a.m. – Alexis shot the first victim in the 4 West area of Building #197.
- 8:17 a.m. – First 911 call is received from the fourth floor of Building #197.
- 8:20 a.m. – Alexis left the fourth floor using the stairs and entered the third floor.
- 8:28 a.m. – Alexis appeared on the first floor.
- 8:57 a.m. – Alexis returned to the third floor.
- 9:25 a.m. – Law enforcement shoot and kill Alexis on the third floor.