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GUILTY CA - Gerardo Hernandez, 39, TSA agent, killed, 3 injured in LAX shooting, 1 Nov 2013
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http://losangeles.cbslocal.com/2013...nt-against-lax-shooting-suspect-paul-ciancia/
FBI Officially Files Criminal Complaint Against LAX Shooting Suspect Paul Ciancia
November 2, 2013 8:34 PM
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In addition, the FBI also set up a website asking the public to submit any digital materials pertaining to Ciancia or the incident.
To leave tips or digital materials about the shooting, click here:
https://laxshootingtips.fbi.gov/
Witnesses are also asked to call the FBI Los Angeles tip line at (888) 226-8443.
The FBI wrote in a statement, “No piece of information or detail is too small.”
FBI Officially Files Criminal Complaint Against LAX Shooting Suspect Paul Ciancia
November 2, 2013 8:34 PM
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In addition, the FBI also set up a website asking the public to submit any digital materials pertaining to Ciancia or the incident.
To leave tips or digital materials about the shooting, click here:
https://laxshootingtips.fbi.gov/
Witnesses are also asked to call the FBI Los Angeles tip line at (888) 226-8443.
The FBI wrote in a statement, “No piece of information or detail is too small.”
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Words cannot describe the sorrow my heart feels for those that died, for their loved ones and the community.
It also breaks my heart that someone so young with mental illness was either blind to the fact that what he was doing would lead to his execution or felt so hopeless that he did not care his actions would be punished with the death penalty.
It also breaks my heart that someone so young with mental illness was either blind to the fact that what he was doing would lead to his execution or felt so hopeless that he did not care his actions would be punished with the death penalty.
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See link for the graphic pic...
WARNING GRAPHIC CONTENT: First photo of shot TSA killer
By Philip MessingNovember 2, 2013 | 4:07pm
http://nypost.com/2013/11/02/warning-graphic-content-first-photo-of-shot-tsa-killer/
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In this stunning first image of the alleged shooter, Ciancia is seen with his hands cuffed behind his slim body, surrounded by law enforcement as he stares off into space, next to a thick, bright pool of his own blood on the floor.
The shot he took to the mouth knocked out teeth and split his tongue, sources said. Ciancia, a Pennsville, NJ, native, is in critical condition at UCLA Medical Center.
WARNING GRAPHIC CONTENT: First photo of shot TSA killer
By Philip MessingNovember 2, 2013 | 4:07pm
http://nypost.com/2013/11/02/warning-graphic-content-first-photo-of-shot-tsa-killer/
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In this stunning first image of the alleged shooter, Ciancia is seen with his hands cuffed behind his slim body, surrounded by law enforcement as he stares off into space, next to a thick, bright pool of his own blood on the floor.
The shot he took to the mouth knocked out teeth and split his tongue, sources said. Ciancia, a Pennsville, NJ, native, is in critical condition at UCLA Medical Center.
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http://nypost.com/2013/11/01/tsa-worker-shot-dead-in-lax-rampage-report/
The rifle used is in this pic (which I cropped to enlarge):
The rifle looks very basic as if he bought a stock version just for this purpose and never did anything else with it.
If he had it for any length of time and actually LIKED rifles he surely would have bought some accessories.
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It seems like in so many cases when it comes to these types of shootings we're dealing with people that have undiagnosed mental health issues or mental health issues that if properly paid attention to and treated tragedies could have been avoided. So I agree with you, I think their should be a referendum on the mental health system in this country. And it's not just tragedies like this one. Such a referendum could also help avoid at least some children, families and other innocents from being killed or kidnapped. I don't know if we could totally prevent all of them, but at least there would be less of them.
I've been reading about the Patriot movement and The New World Order. It seems like people like that believe these things range from the harmless conspiracy theorists to the extreme of monsters like Timoty McVeigh. The shooter in this tragedy was so young though. If he would have been treated, maybe he wouldn't have been vulnerable to take the ideology to such an extreme.
I understand your compassion for the shooter. I wish something had been done, I wish we could do something to prevent incidents like this.
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Well California really doesn't have the death penalty anyway. Okay, they SAY they do but it has been what...nearly 8 years since their last execution and they have nearly TWICE the number of death row inmates than any other state?
Seems like another joke being pulled on the CA taxpayers, death penalty decisions are VERY expensive so if they won't actually execute any of their heinous killers what is the point? So lawyers can make more money filing appeals?
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Despite the possibility he suffers from mental illness of some type, seeing Ciancia in this photo does not disturb me. He is still alive whereas Mr. Hernandez is not.
There is no excuse for what he did.
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Are we sure this photo is not a fake, the clothes seem wrong from what people said he was wearing!
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Looking at it again, the blood pool does look fake, however the blood on the face seems consistent with the injuries to his mouth (knocking teeth out, splitting the tongue).
Wouldn't be at all surprised if it's fake considering the source.
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He doesn't look 23 but an old balding man the photo is surreal...
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I noticed that also the more I analyzed the photo. And again, consider the source.
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Los Angeles Times:
http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/...-rifle-20131101,0,4682951.story#axzz2jbiWFIEQ
"They hit him multiple times before he went down, said one law enforcement source. A witness said the gunman was wearing a bulletproof vest."
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"Vernon Cardenas, 45, was one of the last people still inside Terminal 3, and was trying to determine whether hed be safer running or staying when he found himself face to face with the gunman. The gunman, dressed in dark clothing and no longer carrying a bag, had his weapon pointed to the ground and stared directly into Cardenas face.
He wasnt moving like he was being chased, said Cardenas, the executive chef at State Social House restaurant in West Hollywood who was preparing to fly on Virgin America to Philadelphia to conduct auditions for the television show MasterChef."
New York Daily News:
"It was surreal, recalled Tom Lagos, who saw the airport killer in action. My wife and I were waiting for our flight to Newark at Gate 33 in the Virgin terminal, and we just saw a stampede of people headed in our direction with incredible fear in their eyes.
He was alone, wearing a lot of baggy clothes and a dark flannel shirt. He was a slender, young white guy and walking with this long gun. It was so eerie. He wasnt in a hurry, not really engaging anyone. He looked like he was moving in a methodical way."
Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/news/nat...re-la-airport-article-1.1503916#ixzz2jblgoTq0
http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/...-rifle-20131101,0,4682951.story#axzz2jbiWFIEQ
"They hit him multiple times before he went down, said one law enforcement source. A witness said the gunman was wearing a bulletproof vest."
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"Vernon Cardenas, 45, was one of the last people still inside Terminal 3, and was trying to determine whether hed be safer running or staying when he found himself face to face with the gunman. The gunman, dressed in dark clothing and no longer carrying a bag, had his weapon pointed to the ground and stared directly into Cardenas face.
He wasnt moving like he was being chased, said Cardenas, the executive chef at State Social House restaurant in West Hollywood who was preparing to fly on Virgin America to Philadelphia to conduct auditions for the television show MasterChef."
New York Daily News:
"It was surreal, recalled Tom Lagos, who saw the airport killer in action. My wife and I were waiting for our flight to Newark at Gate 33 in the Virgin terminal, and we just saw a stampede of people headed in our direction with incredible fear in their eyes.
He was alone, wearing a lot of baggy clothes and a dark flannel shirt. He was a slender, young white guy and walking with this long gun. It was so eerie. He wasnt in a hurry, not really engaging anyone. He looked like he was moving in a methodical way."
Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/news/nat...re-la-airport-article-1.1503916#ixzz2jblgoTq0
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And while I pray for justice, nothing will bring him back. Nothing can be done to reverse the ripple effect of this tragedy. Nothing.
Vernon again:
"Los Angeles chef Vernon Cardenas, who was en route to Philadelphia to audition for the MasterChef TV programme, said the gunman looked at him but didn't shoot.
He described a white man in his 20s with "dirty blonde hair". Mr Cardenas said: "He was dressed in navy blue clothes, he almost looked like an employee of the airport. He was walking around in sort of a daze.""
Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/lax-shooter-hated-the-government-2013-11#ixzz2jboRaE6M
Originally from The Telegraph
"Los Angeles chef Vernon Cardenas, who was en route to Philadelphia to audition for the MasterChef TV programme, said the gunman looked at him but didn't shoot.
He described a white man in his 20s with "dirty blonde hair". Mr Cardenas said: "He was dressed in navy blue clothes, he almost looked like an employee of the airport. He was walking around in sort of a daze.""
Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/lax-shooter-hated-the-government-2013-11#ixzz2jboRaE6M
Originally from The Telegraph
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Sorry but on what planet is his hair color "dirty blonde"? Even the AFTER photos clearly show his very short hair is dark brown.
Interesting how the media keeps talking about the color of his hair.
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By TAMI ABDOLLAH | Associated Press 37 mins ago
LOS ANGELES (AP) The 23-year-old gunman charged in a deadly shooting at Los Angeles International Airport told authorities at the scene that he acted alone and had been dropped off at the airport by a friend, a law enforcement official who has been briefed on the investigation said Sunday.
Authorities do not believe the friend knew that Paul Ciancia, the man charged in the attack, planned to open fire inside LAX's Terminal 3 just moments later, killing one Transportation Security Administration officer and wounding four others, including two more TSA workers, said the official, who is not authorized to speak publicly about the investigation and requested anonymity.
Ciancia was dropped off in a black Hyundai and was not a ticketed passenger. He was able to respond to investigators' questions at the scene Friday, the source said. more at link: http://news.yahoo.com/gunman-told-police-acted-alone-lax-shooting-174959371.html
LOS ANGELES (AP) The 23-year-old gunman charged in a deadly shooting at Los Angeles International Airport told authorities at the scene that he acted alone and had been dropped off at the airport by a friend, a law enforcement official who has been briefed on the investigation said Sunday.
Authorities do not believe the friend knew that Paul Ciancia, the man charged in the attack, planned to open fire inside LAX's Terminal 3 just moments later, killing one Transportation Security Administration officer and wounding four others, including two more TSA workers, said the official, who is not authorized to speak publicly about the investigation and requested anonymity.
Ciancia was dropped off in a black Hyundai and was not a ticketed passenger. He was able to respond to investigators' questions at the scene Friday, the source said. more at link: http://news.yahoo.com/gunman-told-police-acted-alone-lax-shooting-174959371.html
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Tribune wire and newspaper reports 11:35 a.m. CST, November 3, 2013
LOS ANGELES
The suspected gunman in last week's deadly attack at Los Angeles International Airport wrote a note saying he intended to die after killing at least one security officer, the chairman of the U.S. House Committee on Homeland Security said on Sunday.
Twenty-three-year-old Paul Anthony Ciancia also discussed weaknesses in airport security in the "suicide" note before Friday's attack, Michael McCaul, the Republican congressman from Texas who chairs the committee, told CNN.Ciancia is accused of fatally shooting a Transportation Security Administration officer, the first employee from the agency to die in the line of duty since it was created 12 years ago. Airport police shot and wounded the gunman, ending the rampage.
"It's clearly one of those notes that reads, 'I'm going to kill people and I don't want to kill civilians,' with the idea that he's going to die at the end of this," McCaul, who said he had read the note, told CNN.
He said the note "talks a lot about killing TSA agents, and he said, 'If I just kill one, my mission is accomplished.'"
In a criminal complaint filed on Saturday, investigators said they found a handwritten letter signed by Ciancia in his bag that addressed TSA officials, writing that he wanted to "instill fear in your traitorous minds." more at link: http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/chi-lax-shooting-20131103,0,119366.story
LOS ANGELES
The suspected gunman in last week's deadly attack at Los Angeles International Airport wrote a note saying he intended to die after killing at least one security officer, the chairman of the U.S. House Committee on Homeland Security said on Sunday.
Twenty-three-year-old Paul Anthony Ciancia also discussed weaknesses in airport security in the "suicide" note before Friday's attack, Michael McCaul, the Republican congressman from Texas who chairs the committee, told CNN.Ciancia is accused of fatally shooting a Transportation Security Administration officer, the first employee from the agency to die in the line of duty since it was created 12 years ago. Airport police shot and wounded the gunman, ending the rampage.
"It's clearly one of those notes that reads, 'I'm going to kill people and I don't want to kill civilians,' with the idea that he's going to die at the end of this," McCaul, who said he had read the note, told CNN.
He said the note "talks a lot about killing TSA agents, and he said, 'If I just kill one, my mission is accomplished.'"
In a criminal complaint filed on Saturday, investigators said they found a handwritten letter signed by Ciancia in his bag that addressed TSA officials, writing that he wanted to "instill fear in your traitorous minds." more at link: http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/chi-lax-shooting-20131103,0,119366.story