By Daily Mail Reporter PUBLISHED: 09:21 EST, 31 January 2014 | UPDATED: 12:18 EST, 31 January 2014 Medical reports have revealed that Veterans Affairs doctors were fooled for years by Aaron Alexis, the gunman who killed 12 people in last yearâ€™s rampage at Washingtonâ€™s Navy Yard. The records show that he lied so convincingly to those treating him that they concluded he had no mental health issues despite serious problems and encounters with police during the same period. Just weeks before the shootings, a doctor treating him for insomnia noted that the patient worked for the Defense Department but wrote hauntingly 'no problem there.'
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Aaron Alexis left a note saying that he had been targeted by low-frequency radio waves for three months before the September 2013 shooting
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That time period lines up with when he was regularly visiting Veteran's Affairs doctors complaining of sleeplessness
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Medical reports show doctors wrote him off and gave him sleeping pills, concluding 'no problem there' in reports
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Alexis went on to kill 12 people at the Washington Navy Yard
In February 2011, almost immediately after Alexis received an honorable discharge from the @placeholder, he complained about tinnitus, which he said was 'annoying and can be distracting.'