Rollie Chance, the man wrongly named in the Washington Navy Yard shooting by CBS and NBC, said that he feels his privacy “was violated.”
“I feel upset. I feel that my privacy was violated. I felt like my world was turned upside down. And now I’m left with trying to put it back together. And I’m thinking about my family, how it would impact my family. I’m upset. I feel that I was wronged,” he told Fox News.
Chance served 24 years in the Navy and was honorably discharged.
“No one has called and apologized to me yet,” he said.
Both CBS and NBC said that Chance was the suspect before they withdrew their stories and tweets about it.
The shooter, Aaron Alexis, was found with Chance’s ID card. Chance has said he does not know Alexis, who was killed.
“I have to feel the impact,” Chance told The Huffington Post. “Not only did it impact me in terms of changing my way of life, it impacted my family, and also I lost friends at the Washington Navy Yard.”
On Monday morning, a media worker called him and asked him if he was Rollie Chance and if he knew if he was the suspect.
“My first thought was, this must be a joke,” he told the Post. “I said to him, ‘I can tell you 100 percent that Rollie Chance was not the shooter.’ That was my first notification that I was, I guess, involved in the Washington Navy Yard shooting.”
Later, the FBI showed up and questioned him.
“The first thing that [the FBI agent] said -- I guess he was trying to calm me down because I was nervous -- [he tried to] liven up the situation by saying, ‘I didn’t have a good day because you are the first shooter who came back to life,’” Chance added. “I didn’t know until then that I was accused of being the shooter and was apparently dead.”
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