As the facts about the young man who plotted and carried out the #ChattanoogaShooting where four Marines were killed on Thursday come out I am forced to roll my eyes and say “Well DUH!!” each time a new “revelation” about him comes to light in the press. My utter frustration has led me to create the following list-the Top Five warning signs that Mohammed Yousuff Abdulazzez had been radicalized.

5-A previously clean shaven young man who is the son of Muslim parents from the Middle East suddenly begins sporting a scraggly beard. I live in Hipster Hell so this would not necessarily indicate that a 24 year old had been radicalized. But when you add this to the fact that his parents have been in this country  for decades and the majority of his female relatives still do not venture out of the house without sporting a hijab-it points to a  fundamentalist orientation in the family’s religious observation.