Family felt Navy base shooter had changed his life

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Jeffrey Tyrone Savage has been identified by authorities as the man who shot and killed a sailor at Norfolk Naval Station on Monday, March 24, 2014, before he was killed by security.

Family felt Navy base shooter had changed his life
By Mike Hixenbaugh
Robert McCabe
The Virginian-Pilot
© March 29, 2014

NORFOLK

The man who drove a semi-truck onto Norfolk Naval Station before killing a sailor left a halfway house two years ago, promising family he was going to make some changes.

Jeffrey Tyrone Savage married the mother of his youngest child. He took classes to get his commercial driver's license. Earlier this year he obtained a federal security credential allowing him access to port facilities and military bases, and he soon found work with a local trucking company.

"We had seen a change in Jeffrey," said Rena Duffie, a cousin who lives on Virginia's Eastern Shore. "When we looked at him, we didn't see the old Jeffrey anymore. We saw a man who loved his wife and had committed himself to being a good father and providing for his family. We thought the old Jeffrey was gone."

Now the family is asking many of the same questions Navy investigators are. What was Savage doing at Norfolk Naval Station late Monday? What prompted him to park his truck near a pier and climb aboard a warship? Why did he wrest control of a guard's gun and kill a man?