Murder Charges for Suspected Gunman in LAX Shooting

Photo Credit: Fox News Federal prosecutors announced Saturday that they have filed charges of murder and commission of violence at an international airport against the man suspected of carrying out the deadly shooting at Los Angeles International Airport in which a TSA officer was fatally shot, and several others were wounded.

If convicted, 23-year-old Paul Anthony Ciancia could get the death penalty. He was arrested Friday after authorities say he barged into a terminal, pulled an AR-15 semi-automatic rifle from his duffel bag and opened fire. The bullets killed a Transportation Security Administration officer and injuring four others before Ciancia was gunned down by airport police.

The killing was “believed to be a premeditated act of murder in the first-degree,” U.S. Attorney Andre Birotte Jr. said in announcing the charges.

The announcement comes after authorities say they have found a note handwritten by Ciancia in which he describes his intent to kill TSA employees and “pigs,” a law enforcement official told The Associated Press.

Federal authorities said Ciancia had “a bunch of threatening language directed at the TSA and lots of anti-government rants.”

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