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One killed in Los Angeles airport shooting

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One person killed in Los Angeles airport shooting

LOS ANGELES: -- Airport Police Chief, Patrick Gannon: "As you can imagine a large amount of chaos took place"
One person has died and seven people were wounded, one critically, during a shooting at Los Angeles International Airport, officials say.

The Transportation Security Administration said a number of its employees were injured, one fatally.

The suspect - named by the FBI as 23-year-old Los Angeles resident Paul Anthony Ciancia - was wounded by police and detained.

Hundreds of flights nationwide were affected by the incident.

LA Airport police chief Patrick Gannon told reporters a "lone shooter"

Full story: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-24773025

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Flights are a mess, mainly because of road closures, ATC delays (outbound), airside security. Believe the one fatality was a TSA employee. Seems like the shooter wanted to kill as many TSA employees as possible.

A shooting at LAX left a TSA agent dead and six other people injured

LOS ANGELES — A deadly shooting spree at crowded Los Angeles International Airport by a lone gunman left a security official dead and a half-dozen other people injured Friday, creating scenes of mayhem that sent hundreds scurrying and snarled travel plans for thousands more.

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2013/11/01/los-angeles-airport-terminal-incident/3351473/

The TSA Found 29 Firearms at Airports This Week, Before the LAX Shooting

Over the last week, the TSA discovered 29 firearms—27 of which were loaded. Here, from the TSA, is the breakdown of what kinds of guns were found where:

http://www.nationaljournal.com/defense/the-tsa-found-29-firearms-at-airports-this-week-before-the-lax-shooting-20131101

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Gunman kills TSA agent, injures 6 others at Los Angeles Airport

LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA (BNO NEWS) -- A gunman carrying a note with 'anti-government' views opened fire Friday at Los Angeles International Airport, killing a federal security officer and injuring six other people before being shot by police and being taken into custody, local and federal officials said.

The incident began at 9:22 a.m. local time when Paul Anthony Ciancia, 23, opened fire at terminal 3 of the nation's third largest airport. He appeared to be targeting Transportation Security Administration (TSA) employees specifically, killing 39-year-old TSA officer Gerardo I. Hernandez and injuring two others TSA employees.

"At 9:20 this morning, an individual came into terminal 3 of this airport, pulled an assault rifle out of a bag and began to open fire in the terminal," said LAX Airport Police Chief Patrick Gannon. "He proceeded up into the screening area where TSA screeners are and continued shooting and went past the screeners back into the airport itself."

Gannon said Airport Police responded immediately and followed Ciancia through the terminal before engaging him in gunfire, after which he was taken into custody. The bursts of gunfire sent hundreds of terrified travelers running for safety as officials shut down parts of the busy airport, affecting 746 flights by Friday evening.

The exact motive for the shooting was not immediately known, but investigators said Ciancia was carrying a note that expressed "anti-government" views. An unidentified law enforcement official, speaking to the Los Angeles Times, said Ciancia expressed his "disappointment in the government" in the note and said he had no interest in hurting "innocent people."

U.S. President Barack Obama said he was "concerned" about the shooting and later called TSA Administrator John Pistole to share his condolences and pledge his "utmost support" for the agency. In an email to TSA employees on late Friday, Pistole said the two injured TSA employees were "recovering from their wounds."

"No words can explain the horror that we experienced today when a shooter took the life of a member of our family and injured two TSA officers at Los Angeles International Airport," he wrote in the email. "Sadly, today marks the first incident where a TSA officer was killed in the line of duty."

Pistole said he planned to travel to Los Angeles on Saturday to meet with the injured employees, family members of Hernandez, and the Los Angeles Airport TSA workforce. "Together, we will get through this. Our faith will guide us and our professionalism will ensure our ability to carry out our mission," he added.

The last attack at Los Angeles International Airport happened on July 4, 2002, when Egyptian-American Hesham Mohamed Hadayet opened fire at an El Al ticket counter, killing two people and injuring four others. Hadayet himself was killed in the attack, which officials said was over the U.S. support for Israel.

(Copyright 2013 by BNO News B.V. All rights reserved. Info: [email protected].)

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Hmm, armed and trying to prevent government or totalitarian force from taking over. Sounds a bit like some guys on here.

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wearing fatigues and carrying a bag containing a handwritten note that said he 'wanted to kill TSA and pigs' and that may have made a reference to a conspiracy theory about a totalitarian force trying to take over the world, according to a federal official who wished to remain anonymous.

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Sources also added that the note was signed with the letters 'NWO' which stands for 'New World Order'.

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2483833/LAX-airport-shooter-Paul-Anthony-Ciancia-ranted-killing-pigs-TSA-pictured.html#ixzz2jTVFkY2R

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