– A man who opened fire at Los Angeles International Airport in 2013, killing a Transportation Security Administration officer and wounding three other people, has agreed to plead guilty, the U.S. Attorney’s Office announced today.
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In a plea agreement which Ciancia signed on August 30, he agreed to enter a guilty plea to 11 felony charges including the murder of a federal officer during the November 1, 2013, attack in which he opened fire with a semiautomatic rifle in the airport’s busy Terminal 3.
Ciancia, 26, is charged with the murder of Transportation Security Administration officer Gerardo Hernandez at LAX on November 1, 2013, when he opened fire and caused a panic that sent passengers and airport screeners running for their lives.
Federal prosecutors said past year they meant to seek the death penalty for Ciancia if the case went to trial, citing what they said was his substantial planning and premeditation ahead of the crime and its impact on the victims. His attorneys didn’t respond to a message seeking comment.
He told his brother his “whole life has been leading up to this”, the agreement said.
Officers quickly confronted Ciancia at Terminal 3, shooting him in the head and leg during a gunbattle before he was arrested. “This was the goal I was brought here”. “. Please don’t let the story be skewed. there wasn’t a terrorist attack on November 1”.
Murder of a federal officer, the most serious offense among the 11 criminal counts to which Paul Anthony Ciancia, 26, has agreed to plead guilty, carries a mandatory minimum sentence of life in prison without parole.
Ciancia, who has been in custody since he was critically wounded in a shootout with police during the November 1, 2013, attack, is expected to enter his guilty plea at an upcoming hearing. There was a pissed off patriot trying to water the tree of liberty. He returned to shoot him at point-blank range after seeing him move. Teacher Brian Ludmer, who had been in the screening area, was shot in the calf. Prosecutors said Ciancia brought 500 rounds of ammunition to the airport.
“Witnesses to the shooting said the gunman asked them whether they worked for the TSA, and if they said no, he moved on”.
Machuca said she and Hernandez’s children, a boy and a girl, are now 17 and 14, respectively.
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Los Angeles police spokesman Andy Neiman said on Monday that the reports were spurred by “loud noises only”, and police are still investigating to find the source of them. We will support him during the hard times ahead.
