Family members of US service members who were killed and severely injured during a terror attack on the Naval Air Station in Pensacola, Florida, in 2019 are suing Saudi Arabia for helping facilitate the attack.
Ahmed Mohammed al-Shamrani, a second lieutenant in the Royal Saudi Air Force, allegedly carried out the attack with the help from trainees in the Saudi military, according to court documents filed on Monday.
Al-Shamrani was shot dead by Pensacola sheriff’s deputies after he killed three US Navy students — and wounded several others.
The lawsuit states al-Shamrani told fellow Saudi air force trainees of his plans at a dinner before the attack on Dec. 6, 2019.
In May, authorities said they decrypted al-Shamrani’s phone and found that he worked with Al Qaeda of the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) for five years to plan the attack. Dec. 6.
Airman Apprentice Mohammed Haitham, 19, Ensign Joshua Kaleb Watson, 23, and Airman Apprentice Cameron Scott Walters, 21, were killed at the scene.
Additionally, four Navy service members, a Navy civil servant, seven sheriff’s deputies and a Department of Defense police officer were wounded in the attack.
