President Obama has promised a full investigation after a Jordanian police officer killed two American contractors, two Jordanians and a South African at a U.S.-funded police training center near Amman. The gunman was killed in a shootout. Four others, including two Americans, were wounded. The slain Americans were reportedly contractors with the military firm DynCorp, working for a State Department program to train Palestinian security forces. Obama denounced the shooting Monday.

President Obama: “The fact that someone dressed in military uniform carried out an attack at a training facility in which it appears that there may have been two or three U.S. citizens killed and a number of other individuals injured. Obviously, a full investigation is taking place. We take this very seriously, and we’ll be working closely with the Jordanians to determine exactly what happened.”