A Navy petty officer wounded in the terror attack on two military recruiting centers in Chattanooga, Tennessee has died from his wounds.

The fallen soldier is Navy Petty Officer Randall Smith.  He leaves behind a wife and three young daughters.

Smith’s mother Paula Proxmire went to the memorial site for those slain by Muhammad Youssef Abdulazeez and placed an American flag and baseball mitt in honor of her son.  She said that America and baseball were her son’s passions.

“My son is a hero. He died doing what he loved. He would have had it no other way,” Proxmire, from Kansas, told NBC News. “He’s been my hero since the day I gave birth to him.”

Meanwhile, the family of Abdulazeez reportedly told investigators that their son suffered from depression and was a drug addict, so they sent him to Jordan to try and get him away from Chattanooga friends who were a “bad influence.”  However, relatives and friends admitted they saw changes in his behavior after his return from seven months in Jordan.

Investigators say Abdulazeez sent a text message to a friend before the attacks that included the Islamic verse “Whoever shows enmity to a friend of mine, then I have declared war against him.”

The FBI reports there is nothing to connect the gunman to ISIS or any other international terrorism group.