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LAX Shooter Identified, "Wanted To Kill TSA And Pigs"
Contrary to initial reports that the shooter was an off-duty NSA agent, subsequent updates have revealed that the LAX shooter, who reportedly is still dead, although unclear if he was killed before or after he was in police custody, as Paul Anthony Ciancia, a 23-year-old who was either a Los Angeles native, or from Pennsville, N.J. Additionally, we have learned that according to a law enforcement official, who was briefed at LAX on the investigation but not authorized to speak publicly, said the gunman was wearing fatigues and carrying a bag containing a hand-written note that said he "wanted to kill TSA and pigs." The official requested anonymity because he was not authorized to speak publicly. Considering the accuracy with which this news event has been broken, most of it relying on unsubstantiated and often times fake Twitter sources (some had reported earlier, falsely, that the former NSA chief had been shot as well), we won't be surprised if this story were to change a few more times.
A law enforcement official told the The Associated Press that the suspect in the Los Angeles airport shooting is a 23-year-old man from New Jersey who wrote a rant about killing Transportation Safety Administration workers.
A law enforcement official, who was briefed at LAX on the investigation but not authorized to speak publicly, said the gunman was wearing fatigues and carrying a bag containing a hand-written note that said he "wanted to kill TSA and pigs." The official requested anonymity because he was not authorized to speak publicly.
The official identified him as Paul Ciancia. A second law enforcement official confirmed the identity, speaking on condition of anonymity.
The gunfire erupted around 9:30 a.m. inside the terminal that houses airlines such as Allegiant Air, Frontier, Spirit, Virgin America and JetBlue. Patrick Gannon, chief of the Airport Police Department, said the suspect walked into the airport, pulled an assault rifle out of a bag and started shooting.
"He proceeded up into the screening area where TSA screeners are and continued shooting,'' Gannon said, adding that the gunman "went past the screeners and back into the terminal itself.''
Gannon said police pursued the gunman, who was shot and taken into custody inside the terminal. The gunman's condition was not immediately known.
Interim Los Angeles Fire Chief Jim Featherstone said paramedics treated seven people at the airport, and six were taken to area hospitals. One person apparently declined to be transported, fire officials said.
Officials at Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center said it was treating three male patients, one in critical condition and two in fair condition. At least two other patients were believed to be at Harbor UCLA Medical Center, but their conditions were not immediately known. News media outlets reported that one patient who was taken to Harbor UCLA had died.
Multiple media outlets, citing unnamed sources, reported that one TSA agent was killed in the gunfire, but police would not confirm the reports.
The gunman was described by some witnesses as a young white male. Police and fire officials said they could not confirm reports that the gunman was an off-duty TSA agent.
Some initial reports indicated that a second suspect had been arrested, but Gannon said, "This was a lone shooter,'' and the gunman "was the only person that was armed in this incident.''
David Bowdich, FBI special agent in charge, declined to provide any details of the investigation, but said, "At this point, we do not see any additional threats here at the airport.''
Aside from the alleged note, the shooter's motives are unclear as of yet.
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Update: that was quick - one has to love the social media.
Correction: LAX gunman NOT killed by law enforcement. Gunman is in custody.
— NBC News (@NBCNews) November 1, 2013
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There would be substantially fewer children then.
No (legit) social media page for a 23-year-old in this day & age?
Tyler would appreciate this:
His name is Paul Ciancia...his name is Paul Ciancia...his name is Paul Ciancia...
if one lone gunman can shut down LAX for 7+ hours and disrupt national air travel, imagine what a coordinated attack by people who know what they are doing could do in terms of damage... naturally the government officials are now out in force justifying their (over)response. I had always thought that the sterile area of the airport was the safest place to be in the country..... I guess that was one more faulty assumption
This event made Front Page News in the Western media Worldwide, with near saturation coverage in Australian morning news channels (TV and Radio).
The consequences of a single event have been well emphasised too, and you may rest assured that there are people out there who may well "have plans", especially in view of the well-reported check-in congestion at most major airports during major holiday seasons.
Another reason why neither of us travel by air these days (even in "reasonably terrorism-free" Australia).
It exposes the fact that they are ill prepared for the exact events they claim to be protecting us from.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mathias_Rust
Call me when they start shootin the Banksters.
+1,000,000
The official requested anonymity because he was not authorized to speak publicly.
Yeah right. He wrote a note. Yeah. Sure.
since TSA implements a new national policy after every security breach, I wonder what we'll have to do now. Maybe they'll add a body cavity search to the full body pat-down and the nudie scanner
You can pretty much count on them doing that before they investigate the losers they hire.
Just in case you have an AR - 15 and a couple of high capacity magazines up your ass? Hope you have a balloon over the muzzle.
Breaking: shots against three young men close to Golden Dawn offices in N. Herakeio-Athens
http://failedevolution.blogspot.gr/2013/11/breaking-shots-against-three-...
The story "jumps the shark" with the claims about the found note.
I've always wondered how long it takes to program these bots.
Seventeen cows were in the cargo hold os a Swiss Air plane and got out on the runway.
Too funny watching them herd cattle during a botched mission.
Unfortunately I view all news now with some level of skepticsm that I am sure would peg me as a conspiracy theory lunatic.
I'll wait to hear the facts... but it seems weird that if someone wanted to inflict a lot of damage with a gun why would he choose a place that has higer security than almost any other public place?
Why he was identified as a TSA employee but a TSA spokesman said he was not employed by the TSA.
If you wanted to stage a very public shooting event with lots of witnesses but no unscripted bystanders where could you possibly do it? An airport tarmac?
What possible motive? Ban the AR15? Arm the TSA? Dont know.
I am aware of a public shooting scripted by law enforcement to allow an agent to gain creds with gang members. It can and has been done to achieve a desired result. The media did not have to be in on it. They just report on it as expected.
I'll wait to see if the facts make sense or don't add up.
The shooter was depressed as his Mom died a few monthes ago.
Did the shooter fire any magic bullets from the grassy knoll? Was Bush Sr. caught on camera nearby?
Mark Burnett of Reality TV schooled our valued protectors on narrative development in real-time focus-group, spaghetti-sticking, feed-back loops.
Well I guess we all know where those 7000 Assault Weapons, I mean Personal Defense Weapons, are going to end up.
a tweet from NBC4 Los Angeles anchor Lucy Noland
https://twitter.com/LucyNBCLA/statuses/396433789041512448
https://www.facebook.com/LucyNBCLA
Odd isn't it - yesterday in LA, and the day before in LA, and the day before that in LA ad infinitum - multiple homicides and numerous violent crimes, often involving children but it is today in LA that she describes as sureal and tragic
Lucy, maybe if you walked the beat in MacArthur Park... oh forget it .. anyone who could tweet such thing is so far gone there is no hope - the only thing missing was a hashtag #prayforLAX
Lucy is a reflection of just how sad and pathetic America has become
New police motto:
"To Serve and Protect? -- Bullshit! Gun 'em down. Hoooraah."
Guns don't kill people.
3 ounce bottles of shampoo kill people.
He died with his shoes on.
What happens when the TSA gropes too hard. Rather than profiling the agents get a little too physical sometimes.
tsa tried to void budget cuts.
I'm relieved. Young white male. Goes homicidal.
On meds or I'm a monkey's uncle.
Will you hear about this? No.
Because Brother Barry's cherished signature piece, FUBAR or not, was written, funded and will be profited upon by the same people who manufactured and prescribed those meds.
And now it all really will be government run.
Oh, and for the record :
400 + people killed by police as justifiable homicides last year.
300+ people killed by rifle (musket, .22, bolt, lever, semi ... does not differentiate).
If you studied math, let's ask the question : Where was mortality higher?
Add to this, that in NYC alone, death ascribed to HIV-AIDS was somewhere around 1500 to 2000 people. Figure ascribed directly to homosexual contact is around the level of national homicides by rifle.
These are all raw numbers, but the problem is that peeps are never supplied with raw numbers by the MSM. Or their politicians.
So in their infinite wisdom, the pols have :
Continually increased SWAT teams (police w aesthetically challenged semi rifles)
Banned certain aesthetically challenged semi rifles from the peeps (need to re write the contstitution, right?)
Made gay marriage one of the highest priorities in the land. (Leave it to Beaver goes in through the back door).
Mike Rivero is saying that this guy was also a TSA employee, something which the media is not covering, and that there's speculation he got fired or had some kind of disagreement. Anyone else heard about this?
http://12160.info/photo/don-t-show-that?context=latest
In the race to offer the most up to date coverage news organizations are going to report second-hand reports that they don't feel they have time enough to check out. Why? Its a competitive media circus. And you really have to feel for organizations like CNN, NBC, and ABC because for 5 years they felt it critical to get white house preapproval on all white house stories before reporting anything. That leaves an organization with human tragedy stories and the like.
Sorry I posted this elsewhere but here goes:
http://www.dailybulletin.com/government-and-politics/20131005/police-hol...
About a month ago - active shooter drill LA / Ontario airport.
I guess that was the dress rehearsal. The command performance was today.
Off-duty NSA? I thought the incorrect rumor was that he was off-duty TSA?
And I find multiple references that he's alive in critical condition and a photo of him handcuffed to a gurney:
http://www.heavy.com/news/2013/11/paul-anthony-ciancia-lax-shooter-suspect/
Also:
"The L.A. Times Reports Ciancia graduated in 2008 from Salesianum School, a private Catholic high school in Wilmington, Delaware — about 20 minutes from Pennsville. A classmate described him as a quiet, slightly built loner who kept to himself and was picked on for being awkward and shy: In four years, I never heard a word out of his mouth. ... He kept to himself and ate lunch alone a lot. .... I really don’t remember any one person who was close to him. He was quiet and people would take advantage of that."
So, it looks like the umpteenth mass shooter who probably suffered from Asperger Syndrome (like the Sandy Hook, Aurora, Virginia tech, etc., shooters) and, as a result, was probably prescribed SSRIs.
Last time I went thru customs, Affirmative Action thugs in the TSA ransacked my luggage and stole 2 ounces of gold from me. Too bad he didn't kill a bunch more!
FUCK THE TSA, FUCK AFFIRMATIVE ACTION HIRES!
LAX Shooting via LewRockwell blog (Nov 1)
Butler Shaffer
We are being informed – by one of CNN’s resident “experts” – that the man who is accused of shooting a few people at LAX (including a TSA agent who died) was most likely a “lone wolf” (Murray Rothbard had a more succinct name for the shooters of prominent people: a “lone nut with a gun”), and that there was no evidence the man was part of a religious group (he stopped short of declaring, in Monty Python-style reporting, that “no parrots were involved in the shooting”). All of this as part of the media’s “speculation as fact” approach to journalism.
I think he didn't need to repeat himself. He could have stopped with "PIGS" and we would have understood