Inquiry Focusing on Chattanooga Gunman’s Trip to Jordan in 2014 - The New York Times
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Mr. Abdulazeez, who was killed in a gun battle with the police during Thursday’s attack, was the son of Palestinians from Jordan, and made several trips to Jordan and Kuwait, where he had relatives, officials said, but he spent most of his life in southeastern Tennessee, and graduated from college here with a degree in engineering
The official Kuwait News Agency also reported Friday that Mr. Abdulazeez visited there in 2010 for a few weeks before heading to Jordan.
Born in Kuwait in 1990, Mr. Abdulazeez became an American citizen in 2003 through the naturalization of his mother, federal officials said; his father was also naturalized. Because he was a minor, he did not have to apply separately for citizenship. A divorce complaint filed by his mother in 2009 and then withdrawn, said the parents were from “the State of Palestine.”