Los Angeles International Airport evacuated after shots reportedly fired

Los Angeles International Airport evacuated after shots reportedly fired

By Michael Martinez, CNN
updated 1:04 PM EDT, Fri November 1, 2013

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Emergency vehicles and workers responded after the airport terminal evacuation Friday.

(CNN) -- Parts of Los Angeles International Airport were being evacuated Friday morning after reports of shots being fired there, police said.

Airport officials said a police incident began about 9:30 a.m. at Terminal 3 at LAX, airport spokeswoman Nancy Suey Castles said.

Passenger Robert Perez, who was getting ready to fly Virgin Air, was taking a nap in the terminal when panic erupted, he told CNN affiliate KCAL/CBS.

"I heard a popping sound, and everybody was diving for cover," Perez told the station. "The TSA said there was a shooting in the terminal and evacuate the building."

At least 100 people came down a staircase. "Everybody started to panic," Perez said.

The passengers were directed to board a bus and were taken to a smaller terminal, he told the affiliate.

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Shooting at LAX: TSA agent, alleged gunman wounded

By Richard Winton and Alicia BanksNovember 1, 2013, 9:43 a.m.

A Transportation Security Administration agent and a suspect were wounded in a shooting at Los Angeles International Airport on Friday morning, sources told the Los Angeles Times.

• http://www.trbimg.com/img-5273df89/t...01/187/187x105Map: Gunfire at LAX

Law enforcement officers were flooding the airport, authorities said, and terminals 2 and 3 were evacuated.

Tory Belleci of the television show Mythbusters tweeted: "Heard gun shots then everyone starting running for the door. Not sure if anyone was hurt. #LAX."

TV footage showed dozens of offficers swarming the airport. Images also showed a law enforcement officer being treated by paramedics. He appeared to be alert. Another officer had a bloody hand.

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At Least 3 Injured in LAX Shooting

NBC Southern California

- ‎53 seconds ago‎

A gunman opened fire at a security checkpoint Friday morning at Los Angeles International Airport, injuring a Transportation Security Administration employee and prompting a terminal evacuation. A TSA spokesperson told NBC4 the shooting occurred at a ...

LAX witness heard 'about a dozen gunshots'; passengers evacuated. More...

MSN News

- ‎2 minutes ago‎

In response to the shooting at LAX, New York airports are increasing
their “high-visibility heavy-weapon patrol” so there is an increased “display of heavy weapons.” The effort is aimed at deterring copycats.

by Christina Ng 10:35 AM

10:05 a.m.: A man armed with a rifle opened fire at Los Angeles International Airport on Friday, leaving several people wounded.


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Live: LAX shooting: TSA officer killed; several others wounded

Los Angeles Times

- ‎33 seconds ago‎

11:10 a.m. A federal law enforcement official said that a TSA officer was shot and killed at a passenger screening checkpoint at Los Angeles International Airport. Three or four other TSA employees were injured in the shooting, the official said. A suspect was ...

Live: Gunman in LAX shooting is killed; He was TSA worker, sources say

Los Angeles Times - 1 minute ago

11:36 a.m.: Law enforcement sources told the Los Angeles Times that the gunman was a TSA employee at LAX. The gunman was killed by authorities after he opened fire at LAX Friday. He allegedly shot ad killed a fellow TSA employee.
11:20 a.m. The gunman who opened fire at Los Angeles International Airport on Friday morning, killing a TSA agent, is dead, law enforcement sources told The Times.

Reports I have gotten was that the shooter worked for the tsa or did at one time work for the tsa, he isn't dead but 1 tsa agents is. Then the shooter is so who know at this point The shooter was through the security and used a rifle. it was terminal 3 there are 3 wounded and 1 dead, they are also saying now that there are multiple injuries. The Airport is in total chaos

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just now LAX gunman 'taken into custody' Police Chief: Gunman 'pulled out assault rifle' in terminal

The suspect in the Los Angeles International Airport shooting appeared to be acting alone and was using an assault rifle, police have confirmed.
Speaking at a press conference, the Chief of the Los Angeles Airport Police Patrick Gannon said: "An individual came into Terminal 3 of this airport, pulled an assault rifle out of a bag and begun to open fire in the terminal.
http://news.images.itv.com/image/fil...9j-4aaqsk.jpeg Chief of Airport Police Patrick Gannon Credit: RTV "He proceeded up into the screening area where TSA screeners are and continued shooting and went past the screeners back into the airport itself.
"Officers from Los Angeles Airport Police responded immediately to the calls. They tracked the individual through the airport and engaged him in gunfire in terminal 3 and were able to successfully take him into custody."
Read: Gunman in LAX shooting taken into custody



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Shooting at LAX airport

Police in Los Angeles have said that the suspected shooter at LAX Airport has been arrested and is in custody.
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3 minutes ago LAX gunman 'taken into custody' Seven injured in LAX Airport shooting

Seven people were injured in the Los Angeles Airport shooting, a fire spokesman said.

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8 minutes ago Gunman in LAX shooting taken into custody

The gunman invovled in the LAX Airport shooting has been taken into custody and is believed to be a lone shooter, the chief of airport police Patrick Gannon has confirmed.

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about 1 hour ago LAX shooting suspect 'killed by officers'

The gunman who opened fire at LAX Airport has been killed by law enforcement officers, NBC News reports citing multiple sources.
At least three people have been shot by the gunman, police said.

Suspect arrested, 'multiple victims' in LAX shooting

USA TODAY

- ‎2 minutes ago‎

LOS ANGELES - A suspect was taken into custody at Los Angeles International Airport Friday after a shooting at a Terminal 3 checkpoint left a TSA employee injured and produced "mutiple victims.

7 injured in LAX shooting spree; suspect arrested

USA TODAY

- ‎27 seconds ago‎

LOS ANGELES - A gunman armed with a semi-automatic rifle went on a shooting spree Friday at Los Angeles International Airport that left at least 7 people injured before the suspect -- who forced his way past a checkpoint -- was tracked down and taken ...

Chicago Man Among LAX Shooting Victims

November 1, 2013 2:30 PM

CHICAGO (CBS) — A man from Chicago was among the victims in the shooting rampage at Los Angeles International Airport.

CBS 2′s Roseanne Tellez spoke with a woman, who would not give her full name, at O’Hare who was trying to get on a flight to see her son.

The 29-year-old man was shot in the leg and told his mother that he is doing fine, Tellez reported. The woman has been in contact with a social worker at the hospital where her son was being treated.

A TSA agent was killed and several other people were injured Friday in the shooting at Terminal 3 at LAX, police said.

The suspect, who is in custody, entered the terminal wearing camouflage and opened fire around 9:20 a.m.

The suspect pulled an assault rifle out of his bag, began to open fire in the terminal and proceeded to the TSA screening area, where he was able to gain access to the airport itself, according to Chief Patrick Gannon of Los Angeles World Airports.

Personnel officers tracked the man, who was able to travel as far as a Burger King restaurant. Officers then engaged in gunfire with him and were subsequently able to take him into custody, he said.

Several others were injured in the shooting.

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Officials don’t believe the gunman has ever worked for TSA. Law enforcement sources had earlier told The Times that the gunman was a TSA employee.

Los Angeles Police Department anti-terrorism officials were on the scene, but sources said they believe the suspect acted alone and was not tied to any known terrorist group.

http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/l...#axzz2jQE7sOZz

1. LAX shooting suspect ID'd as Paul Anthony Ciancia, 23
   UPI.com (blog) ‎- by Gabrielle Levy ‎- 1 minute ago
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   The suspect in Friday afternoon's shooting at LAX was identifiedat 23-year-old U.S. citizen Paul Anthony Ciancia.

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Paul Anthony Ciancia, ‘LAX Shooter’: 5 Fast Facts You Need to Know

Published:4:08 pm EDT, November 1, 2013| Updated:7:23 pm EDT, November 1, 2013

By Paul Farrell Heavy.com

NBC has named Paul Anthony Ciancia, 23, as the suspected gunman in today's shooting at LAX, which killed a TSA agent and injured several more victims. Initially reported as dead by the L.A. Times, Ciancia is now believed to be in critical condition, gunned down by agents after he shot his way through the security checkpoint of Terminal 3. CAL has uncovered within their footage this image of an injured man who appears to be handcuffed to the gurney. (KCAL screenshot)

Here's what we know about him so far:
1. He's 'Anti-Goverment' & 'Wanted to Kill TSA & Pigs' Ciancia reportedly has "strong anti-government views," according to NBC's Pete Williams. This assessment was determined by the "anti-goverment materials" in his possession when he was captured.

The AP reports Ciancia, who was dressed in military-style fatigues, carried a handwritten note that said he "wanted to kill TSA and pigs."

Witnesses say he was specifically targeting TSA employees — asking passengers whether they were TSA, and sparing them when they said they weren't. One TSA agent is dead.

2. He's From South Jersey, the Son of an Auto Shop Owner, But Lived in L.A. Ciancia is reportedly a U.S. citizen and resident of Los Angeles who grew up in Pennsville, South New Jersey.

Heavy.com located a car-repair business in Pennsville tied to a Paul Ciancia, called Salem County Auto Repair. There was answer when we called the business. The Philadelphia Enquirer is now reporting that Ciancia is the son of an auto shop owner in Pennsville. ABC Philadelphia news producer Dave Prohaska tweets that there is a "police presence" outside the Ciancia family home in Pennsville, confirmed by this Fox 29 tweet:

3. He Recently Threatened Suicide, & Cops Went to His L.A. Apartment According to NBC New York: Police say the shooter’s brother got a text message from Ciancia Friday [today] saying he was thinking about taking his life. ABC Philadelphia reports that after the brother received the text, he told his father, who told the Pennsville police chief. The chief reached out to authorities in L.A. — but the call was too late. Pierre Thomas of ABC News tweets that LAPD cops were at Ciancia's L.A. apartment to perform a welfare check at the time of the shooting. A local reporter says Ciancia's roommates said things were "fine":

4. Cops Believe He Acted Alone Police now believe the shooter was working alone, according to a press conference statement by LAX Police Chief Pat Gannon. This despite earlier rumors of multiple gunmen and witness reports to that effect. Adding the confusion, however, is footage of another man in handcuffs:

5. He Used a Rifle, Possibly an AR-15 The possible weapon used in today's LAX shooting spree lies on the ground near the foot of an investigator. Reports suggest it was an AR-15 rifle. INSET: An AR-15. The gunman was armed with a rifle — described in some media reports as "high-powered" and in other reports called an AR-15 — which he pulled from a bag and began shooting at 9:20 a.m. local time at the security checkpoint of Terminal 3. There has been no official confirmation that it was an AR-15. Shooting at LAX Airport: TSA Agent Dead; Gunman in Custody | HEAVY There has reportedly been a shooting incident at Los Angeles International Airports (LAX).

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LAX shooting: Alleged gunman Paul Ciancia a quiet loner, classmates say

Los Angeles Times

- ‎37 minutes ago‎

Pennsville Township, N.J. —. The 23-year-old New Jersey man who authorities have identified as the gunman in the shooting rampage at LAX was a slightly built loner who was bullied at his private Catholic high school, a classmate recalled Friday.

Suspected gunman in LAX shooting charged with murder

Washington Post

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Sources: Alleged shooter hated government, 'New World Order'

Posted: Nov 02, 2013 4:54 PM PDTBy CNN Newswire - email
By Doug Gross

(CNN) -- Paul Anthony Ciancia was a newcomer to Los Angeles -- a 23-year-old Catholic school graduate and son of a popular Fraternal Order of Police member back in New Jersey.

According to a profile emerging of the suspected gunman, he also harbored anti-government views and fears of an ominous New World Order when he walked into Los Angeles International Airport on Friday.

Police say Ciancia pulled an assault rifle out of a bag and opened fire in the airport, killing Transportation Security Administration officer Gerardo Hernandez, 39, and wounding several others, including at least two other agents, in what appeared to be an orchestrated assault on members of the federal agency.

A federal criminal complaint was filed Saturday afternoon charging Ciancia with murder of a federal officer and commission of violence in an international airport, U.S. Attorney Andre Birotte Jr. said.

Shooter: "Hey, are you TSA?"

Eyewitnesses say the shooter walked from person to person, calmly asking, "Hey, are you TSA?"

"I just shook my head," Leon Saryan, a traveler at the airport, told CNN's Anderson Cooper. "And he kept going."

Ciancia was eventually shot multiple times in the chest and taken into custody as he allegedly continued his eerily calm run through the airport's Terminal 3.

He had enough ammunition to "have literally killed everyone in that terminal," Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti said.

Ex-roommate in L.A. shocked

In the hours after the attack, with the terminal at one of the world's busiest airports still closed, authorities were piecing together a picture of the man in hopes of finding answers.

If they're looking for telltale signs of trouble from before he moved to Los Angeles about a year and a half ago, nothing has emerged, at least publicly.

John Mincey, who said Ciancia was his roommate in a Los Angeles apartment complex until February, said he was "absolutely shocked" by the charges.

"From knowing this guy, I can't believe that he would -- it just doesn't make sense," Mincey told CNN affiliate KABC-TV.

"He would always talk about documentaries he would watch," but Ciancia never talked about "any hatred," Mincey said.

Mincey told KABC he had lunch last week with Ciancia, who said he was going to New Jersey for the holidays and hoped to make amends with his family.

No history of mental illness in New Jersey

Allen Cummings, the police chief in Ciancia's hometown of Pennsville, New Jersey, said Ciancia has no history of violence or recorded mental illness. Family members told police he didn't seem troubled the last time they saw him -- when he visited family for a wedding this summer.

"Obviously, you know, they're upset," Cummings told CNN. "I mean, this is a shock to them. It's a shock to our community."

Ciancia grew up in a quiet, wooded neighborhood just minutes from the Delaware Memorial Bridge, according to The News Journal in Wilmington, Delaware. Houses there are far apart, nestled in the woods at the end of driveways sometimes hundreds of feet long.

He once worked in a popular auto repair shop owned by his father, an associate member of the local Fraternal Order of Police who neighbors say has always been known for how well he takes care of customers there.

Remembered as quiet high school student

The younger Ciancia graduated in 2008 from an all-boys Catholic school, the Salesianum School, in Wilmington, according to Brendan P. Kennealey, the school president.

Classmates there described him as awkward, saying he never fit in.

"In four years, I never heard a word out of his mouth," David Hamilton, who graduated with Ciancia in 2008, told the Los Angeles Times. "He kept to himself and ate lunch alone a lot. I really don't remember any one person who was close to him."

Texts alarmed family

It wasn't immediately clear Saturday why he moved across the country. But that may have been where the first signs of trouble began to surface.

In texts to his brother and father, Ciancia said he was unhappy and discouraged living in Los Angeles, according to an intelligence source with knowledge of the investigation. The source spoke on condition of anonymity, citing the ongoing investigation.

It was one of those text messages that made his family think something bad was about to happen.

"Basically, the text message was just a message to the little brother, and the way it was written, they had some concern about it, and that's when they brought it to our attention," Cummings said.

The intelligence source described his texts as "angry" and "rambling."

Father called hometown police chief

The father called Cummings about 1:30 p.m. ET on Friday. Cummings, in turn, called the Los Angeles Police Department, asking them to check on him and make sure he was OK.

When they checked, he wasn't home.

The next Cummings heard, he said, were media reports linking Ciancia to the shooting.

Angry note found on suspect

A note found on the alleged shooter paints a picture of an angry young man.

The materials included a rant that appeared to refer to the New World Order as well as anti-TSA and anti-government claims, a federal law enforcement official said Saturday.

The New World Order is a common conspiracy theory focused on a secretive group of international elites bent on controlling the planet and forming a one-world government.

Sources: Note said "kill TSA"

Investigators found information on the suspect expressing not just anti-federal government sentiment but also anger at the TSA specifically, according to a federal law enforcement official.

Multiple reports cite police sources saying the note included language saying he wanted to "kill TSA" and "pigs."

The evolution of those thoughts, and how they may have led to Friday's bloody shooting, is a story that is yet to unfold.

"We are currently investigating his background and more about him," FBI Special Agent in Charge David Bowdich told reporters.

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Accused Los Angeles airport shooter to appear in court

LOS ANGELES Mon Dec 2, 2013 7:58pm EST

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Paul Anthony Ciancia, 23, is pictured in this undated handout photo courtesy of the FBI.
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(Reuters) - The man charged with killing a U.S. airport security officer in a shooting frenzy at Los Angeles International Airport is set to appear in federal court on Wednesday, a spokesman for U.S. prosecutors said.

Paul Anthony Ciancia, 23, was charged a day after the November 1 shooting with killing a federal officer and committing an act of violence at an international airport.

U.S. prosecutors have left open the possibility of seeking the death penalty against him. He is accused of killing one Transportation Security Administration agent and wounding two other TSA officers and an airline passenger with a rifle inside the airport, also known as LAX, before he was seriously wounded in a gunfight with airport police.

Ciancia, who last month was transported from a hospital to U.S. custody, will not enter a plea when he appears before U.S. Magistrate Judge David T. Bristow, said Thom Mrozek, a spokesman for the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Central District of California.

Instead, the judge will make sure Ciancia has been informed of his rights and the criminal complaint filed against him, and there may be discussion of whether he might be eligible for bail as he awaits trial, Mrozek said.

A public defender has been provisionally appointed to serve as Ciancia's lawyer.

His medical condition has so far prevented him from making an initial court appearance, or from being interviewed since being taken into custody, authorities have said.

Ciancia's wounds included a gunshot to the face.

Authorities have said Ciancia appeared to have acted alone and they continued to search for a motive behind the shooting rampage.

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LAX Shooting Suspect Ciancia Indicted for Capital Murder (1)

Businessweek

- ‎1 hour ago‎

Paul Ciancia, the 23-year-old Californian suspected of shooting to death a federal security officer at Los Angeles International Airport last month, was indicted on first degree murder charges that carry a potential death penalty, the U.S. . .