LAX Terminal Shooting - 7 Injured, 1 dead

[Chun Liroy]

How has no one made a thread about this yet?
Anyways, the event seems to be mostly over now. Mods can move to poopdeck if it isn't appropriate here, and when it eventually devolves into 'murica gun violence shitfest.

http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/l...#axzz2jQNcoBPs

A gunman armed with a high-powered rifle opened fire at Los Angeles International Airport on Friday morning, killing a TSA agent and wounding several others, authorities said.

Authorities said the gunman fired at several locations in Terminal 3 before police shot him. LAX police did not reveal his condition.

[Updated at 1 p.m.: The Times earlier reported that the suspect was dead. But sources have since told the paper that he is in critical condition.]

The motive was unclear. A federal law enforcement official said that the gunman was a ticketed passenger entering the airport.

MORE: Eyewitness accounts of LAX shooting

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.

At a news conference, the Los Angeles Fire Department said it treated seven people at the scene and transported six to local hospitals.

Patrick Gannon, the LAX police chief, said the gunman entered Terminal 3 at 9:20 a.m. He pulled an assault rifle out of his bag and began firing. He moved into the screening area and continued shooting, Gannon said. He got past the checkpoint and moved further into the terminal.

Authorities tracked him down and shot him near a Burger King.

Vernon Cardenas, 45, of West Hollywood said he was at the airport on his way to Philadelphia when the shooting occurred.
“Sitting down, all of a sudden, literally just out of the blue, you hear a rumble in the background and a couple of seconds later, people are running at me,” said Cardenas, who does casting for the Fox television show "MasterChef." He described the scene as “mayhem,” with couples crying and parents who couldn’t find their children.

Brian Adamick, 43, said he was boarding a Spirit Airlines flight to Chicago at Gate 32 when a commotion erupted.

He said people were running through the terminal, away from a security area. Adamick said he went through an emergency exit downstairs onto the tarmac with several other passengers.

“While I was on the tarmac, I heard two gunshots from the same area where the people had been running and screaming,” he said.

A few minutes after he got outside, he said buses showed up to help evacuate passengers. He said he saw a wounded TSA agent board one of the buses. The man’s ankle was bloody: “it looked like it was straight out of the movies,” Adamick said.

The man told him, “I got shot, I’m fine.” He told passengers not to worry about him and that he had been shot before, Adamick said.

A White House official said President Obama had been informed of the incident: "The President has been briefed about the shooting at LAX. We will continue to stay in touch with our federal and local partners. The LAPD is leading the response and investigation. We urge citizens to listen to the authorities and follow directions from the first responders on site. The president will continue to receive briefings throughout the day.”

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 news footage showed dozens of officers 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.

Dafuq.

[Fievel]

Sigh

[Howie Roary]

said Cardenas, who does casting for the Fox television show "MasterChef."

inappropriate plug

[tyven]

Not enough applause (CLAPPING) for my tastes.

the real tragedy is james franco ended up stuck on his plane cuz of this.

[Chun Liroy]

Not enough applause (CLAPPING) for my tastes.
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Rofl

[Lucavi]

I want to know how he got the gun all the way up to the goddamn TSA check in terminal.

What, was it stored in his suitcase?

[Qalbert]

I want to know how he got the gun all the way up to the goddamn TSA check in terminal.

What, was it stored in his suitcase?

security is pretty lax

[Blubbartron]

I want to know how he got the gun all the way up to the goddamn TSA check in terminal.

What, was it stored in his suitcase?

Patrick Gannon, the LAX police chief, said the gunman entered Terminal 3 at 9:20 a.m. He pulled an assault rifle out of his bag and began firing.

Reading's hard man.

[Melena]

Incoming TSA checkpoints before you can enter the airport now. I honestly believe it's a matter of time before we have a major incident in the tsa line or ticket booths since anyone can walk up in there without a boarding pass or anything.

[Necronus]

How has no one made a thread about this yet?

Dafuq.

These shooting incidents are happening so frequently we're all at the point where we want to care but yet can't seem to care about it enough to even copy pasta an article.

[Qalbert]

http://insidetv.ew.com/2013/11/01/my...-lax-shooting/

[Souj]

When they say "Mythbusters stars" those are the very last two people I come to think of.

and yeah, when it seems like a shooting in a public place happens once a week, it (on an incredibly impersonal level) gets hard to care about them specifically

[Pooky]

security is pretty lax

This post with that avatar is gold.

[kisada]

i live literally 3 miles from lax. traffic is insane here still at night and it's been cops and helicopters all day

[isladar]

but where do you live figuratively from lax

[Abandon]

oh ho

[Elites]

Inb4 gun laws

[Ghost_Wheel22]

>high-powered
>assault rifle

So he had NOS bullets, a fully automatic rifle, AND only managed to kill one in LAX? Not buying it. False flag. etc.

[Fhqwghads]

>high-powered
>assault rifle

So he had NOS bullets, a fully automatic rifle, AND only managed to kill one in LAX? Not buying it. False flag. etc.

That would be because it was a .223 semi-automatic sporting rifle. In other words: not high-powered, not fully-automatic and certainly not an assault rifle.

The lesson learned here is that even in an area that has a huge security presence, the only way to keep yourself safe is to rely on yourself. Kinda takes the wind right out of the sails for people against gun ownership. If you're not safe in a place like an airport in California (state with some of the most bat-shit insane restrictive gun control laws) where legislation has been enacted to keep people safest, then what laws can be passed to make people really safe? Is the answer to restrict liberties even further? Give the state even more power? Because those will be the solutions you'll hear from those who want to strip people of their right to self-defense. That is if they'll even chime up over this event, which I doubt they'll do because there's nothing here they can use to further their agenda.

[Dimmauk]

More people with more guns sounds so much safer. Do they make guns for grandma?
Guns with extra large scopes for the elderly? It would be a tragedy if Granny accidently shot a some joe blow hero while he was also trying shoot up some bad dudes.