{"id":673,"date":"2018-01-09T21:31:57","date_gmt":"2018-01-10T04:31:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/deamaltzchallenge.com\/?p=673"},"modified":"2018-01-09T21:31:57","modified_gmt":"2018-01-10T04:31:57","slug":"marine-lance-corporal-squire-skip-wells","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maltzchallenge.com\/index.php\/2018\/01\/09\/marine-lance-corporal-squire-skip-wells\/","title":{"rendered":"Marine Lance Corporal Squire &#8220;Skip&#8221; Wells"},"content":{"rendered":"<header id=\"ra-headers\">\n<h1 id=\"ra-headline\" itemprop=\"headline name\">&#8216;ACTIVE SHOOTER&#8217;: Marine Skip Wells, one of four Marines killed in Chattanooga rampage, sent frantic final text to girlfriend<\/h1>\n<\/header>\n<p><span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<ul class=\"ra-share\">\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none\">\n<ul class=\"ra-share\">\n<li class=\"ra-share-t\"><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=Chattanooga%20victim%20Marine%20Skip%20Wells%20sent%20frantic%20final%20text&amp;url=http:\/\/nydn.us\/1ObFbbZ\" rel=\"noopener\">Tweet<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<ul class=\"ra-share\" id=\"ra-share-top\">\n<li class=\"ra-share-e\"><a href=\"mailto:?subject=From%20the%20Daily%20News:%20Chattanooga%20victim%20Marine%20Skip%20Wells%20sent%20frantic%20final%20text&amp;body=Marine%20Lance%20Cpl.%20Skip%20Wells%20sent%20one%20last%20text%20to%20his%20girlfriend%20moments%20before%20he%20was%20killed%20in%20Thursday%27s%20Chattanooga%20shooting%20spree.%20%0A%0A%20http:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/news\/national\/chattanooga-victim-marine-skip-wells-frantic-final-text-article-1.2295452\">email<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><main id=\"ra-main\"><\/p>\n<div id=\"ra-body-wrap\">\n<div class=\"ra-module top\">\n<div class=\"ra-rotator\">\n<div class=\"ra-rotator-wrapper\" data-tb-region=\"slider-7-2423947\">\n<figure itemprop=\"associatedMedia\" itemscope=\"\" itemtype=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/ImageObject\" itemid=\"http:\/\/assets.nydailynews.com\/polopoly_fs\/1.2295451.1437141418!\/img\/httpImage\/image.jpg_gen\/derivatives\/article_750\/wells18n-1-web.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" srcset=\"http:\/\/assets.nydailynews.com\/polopoly_fs\/1.2295451.1437141418!\/img\/httpImage\/image.jpg_gen\/derivatives\/article_750\/wells18n-1-web.jpg 750w, http:\/\/assets.nydailynews.com\/polopoly_fs\/1.2295451.1437141418!\/img\/httpImage\/image.jpg_gen\/derivatives\/article_1200\/wells18n-1-web.jpg 1200w\" alt=\"Marines Skip Wells has been identified as the second victim in Thursday's Chattangooga shooting.\" src=\"http:\/\/assets.nydailynews.com\/polopoly_fs\/1.2295451.1437141418!\/img\/httpImage\/image.jpg_gen\/derivatives\/article_750\/wells18n-1-web.jpg\" \/><figcaption><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span class=\"ra-rotator-prev\"><\/span><span class=\"ra-rotator-next\"><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"ra-rotator-caption\"><span class=\"ra-counter\">1 | 2<\/span><span class=\"ra-caption\">Marines Skip Wells has been identified as the second victim in Thursday&#8217;s Chattangooga shooting.<\/span><span class=\"ra-credit\" itemprop=\"copyrightHolder\"><\/span><\/div>\n<p><span class=\"ra-rotator-enlarge\"><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<aside id=\"ra-left\">\n<section class=\"ra-meta\">\n<div class=\"ra-byline\" itemprop=\"author\" itemscope=\"\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/Person\">BY<a rel=\"author\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/authors?author=Roni-Robbins\"><span itemprop=\"name\">RONI ROBBINS<\/span><\/a><a rel=\"author\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/authors?author=Meg-Wagner\"><span itemprop=\"name\">MEG WAGNER<\/span><\/a><a id=\"ra-follow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.twitter.com\/megwagner\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><\/a><a rel=\"author\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/authors?author=Jason-Molinet\"><span itemprop=\"name\">JASON MOLINET<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"ra-credits\" itemprop=\"publisher\" itemscope=\"\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/Organization\">NEW YORK DAILY NEWS<\/p>\n<div itemprop=\"logo\" itemscope=\"\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/ImageObject\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"ra-date-updated\" content=\"2015-07-19T18:56:16\">Updated: Sunday, July 19, 2015, 6:56 PM<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<\/aside>\n<article id=\"ra-body\" itemprop=\"articleBody\">In the frenzied moments before he was<span>\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/news\/national\/police-officer-shot-tennessee-navy-marines-reserve-article-1.2294365\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">killed in a Tennessee shooting rampage<\/a>Thursday, Marine Lance Cpl. Skip Wells sent an alarming text to his girlfriend.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cACTIVE SHOOTER,\u201d Wells wrote to Caroline Dove.<\/p>\n<p>The message was as clear as the all caps type.<\/p>\n<p>But Dove, who knew Wells was working at the Navy Network Operations Support Center in Chattanooga, Tenn., laughed off the message as some sick joke.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou are so weird,\u201d she replied from her home in Savannah, Ga. The couple hadn\u2019t seen each other since Valentine\u2019s Day.<\/p>\n<p>It was the last time she would hear from the 21-year-old Wells, who along with three other Marines, was shot and killed by Kuwaiti-born gunman Mohammad Youssef Abdulazeez in a shooting spree that stretched seven miles and left three others wounded.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/news\/national\/thomas-sullivan-id-marine-killed-tennessee-rampage-article-1.2295327\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Thomas Sullivan<\/a>,<span>\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/news\/national\/marine-david-wyatt-identified-chattanooga-rampage-victim-article-1.2295548\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">David Wyatt<\/a><span>\u00a0<\/span>and<span>\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/news\/national\/marine-carson-holmquist-killed-chattanooga-shooting-article-1.2295574\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Carson Holmquist<\/a><span>\u00a0<\/span>were also identified as victims 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class=\"TL_AP_MOAP_divider\"><\/span><\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/profiles-4-marines-killed-chattanooga-rampage-article-1.2295694\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>PROFILES OF FOUR MARINES KILLED IN CHATTANOOGA<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Dove reached out again hours later, when she realized the gravity of what actually happened.<\/p>\n<div class=\"ra-module v\" itemprop=\"image\" itemscope=\"\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/ImageObject\" itemid=\"http:\/\/assets.nydailynews.com\/polopoly_fs\/1.2296161.1437181502!\/img\/httpImage\/image.jpg_gen\/derivatives\/article_750\/chattanooga-shooting.jpg\">\n<figure class=\"ra-figure\"><span class=\"ra-enlarge\"><\/span><img decoding=\"async\" srcset=\"http:\/\/assets.nydailynews.com\/polopoly_fs\/1.2296161.1437181502!\/img\/httpImage\/image.jpg_gen\/derivatives\/article_750\/chattanooga-shooting.jpg 750w, http:\/\/assets.nydailynews.com\/polopoly_fs\/1.2296161.1437181502!\/img\/httpImage\/image.jpg_gen\/derivatives\/article_1200\/chattanooga-shooting.jpg 1200w\" alt=\"Wells texted his girlfriend, Caroline Dove, when the shooting rampage began.\u00a0\" src=\"http:\/\/assets.nydailynews.com\/polopoly_fs\/1.2296161.1437181502!\/img\/httpImage\/image.jpg_gen\/derivatives\/article_750\/chattanooga-shooting.jpg\" \/><figcaption>\n<h2 class=\"ra-caption\" itemprop=\"description\">Wells texted his girlfriend, Caroline Dove, when the shooting rampage began.<\/h2>\n<p><span class=\"ra-credit\" itemprop=\"copyrightHolder\">(COURTESY OF CAROLINE DOVE VIA AP)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u201cI love you,\u201d she wrote.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHon, I need you to answer me please.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>There was no response. Dove, who started dating Wells after they met at Georgia Southern University more than two years ago, only found out Friday that he was one of four victims.<\/p>\n<p>Wells left college to join the military. He wanted to be a drill sergeant and take his place in a proud family tradition.<\/p>\n<p>The young Marine from Marietta, Ga., came from a military family. He was a &#8220;happy kid,&#8221; who &#8220;didn&#8217;t let anything bring him down,&#8221; said fellow Marine Lance Cpl. Omer Turhan, who trained with Wells in Oklahoma.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf there was one person smiling, it was him,\u201d Turhan told the Daily News. \u201cWhen we had to wake up at 3 a.m., he\u2019d still be smiling. No one else would be happy, but he\u2019d still have a huge smile on his face.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He continued: &#8220;He served honorably. He was one of the better ones of us.&#8221;<\/p>\n<div class=\"ra-module h\" itemprop=\"image\" itemscope=\"\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/ImageObject\" itemid=\"http:\/\/assets.nydailynews.com\/polopoly_fs\/1.2296162.1437181482!\/img\/httpImage\/image.jpg_gen\/derivatives\/article_750\/chattanooga-shooting.jpg\">\n<figure class=\"ra-figure\"><span class=\"ra-enlarge\"><\/span><img decoding=\"async\" srcset=\"http:\/\/assets.nydailynews.com\/polopoly_fs\/1.2296162.1437181482!\/img\/httpImage\/image.jpg_gen\/derivatives\/article_750\/chattanooga-shooting.jpg 750w, http:\/\/assets.nydailynews.com\/polopoly_fs\/1.2296162.1437181482!\/img\/httpImage\/image.jpg_gen\/derivatives\/article_1200\/chattanooga-shooting.jpg 1200w\" alt=\"Caroline Dove holds a photo of Marine Corps Lance Cpl. Skip Wells, her boyfriend. Wells was among four Marines killed in an attack at a military training facility in Chattanooga, Tenn.\" src=\"http:\/\/assets.nydailynews.com\/polopoly_fs\/1.2296162.1437181482!\/img\/httpImage\/image.jpg_gen\/derivatives\/article_750\/chattanooga-shooting.jpg\" \/><figcaption>\n<h2 class=\"ra-caption\" itemprop=\"description\">Caroline Dove holds a photo of Marine Corps Lance Cpl. Skip Wells, her boyfriend. Wells was among four Marines killed in an attack at a military training facility in Chattanooga, Tenn.<\/h2>\n<p><span>\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"ra-credit\" itemprop=\"copyrightHolder\">(RUSS BYNUM\/AP)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>Longtime family friend Theresa Bass, who was helping the family field inquiries, also praised Wells&#8217; attitude.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He loved what he did. He never met an enemy,&#8221; Bass said.<\/p>\n<\/article>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/main><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8216;ACTIVE SHOOTER&#8217;: Marine Skip Wells, one of four Marines killed in Chattanooga rampage, sent frantic final text to girlfriend \u00a0 Tweet \u00a0 email &nbsp; 1 | 2Marines Skip Wells has been identified as the second victim in Thursday&#8217;s Chattangooga shooting. 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