Los Angeles International Airport 9:20 am local time, the FBI says Paul, the 23 year-old white male, enters terminal 3, pulls a rifle from his bag and opens fire. At the security check point, TSA officers who were not armed were shot. One was killed. He proceeded up into the screening area where TSA screenes are and continued shooting and went past the screeners and back into the airport itself. Authority say after shooting his way through the security check points,the gunman managed to make him all the way down this hallway. They say he stop by authority here near a Burger king the food called area. Hundreds run for their lives.
It was complete panic. People were screaming, you know, I saw children crying.
Here is another mayhem. I mean people are trapping over each other on thefloor, bags everywhere, crying, screaming.
Everybody was sort of like, flying down the hall way. It was just like jumpingover chairs, jumping over people, hiding and we were kind of trapped at the endof the terminal.
Trapped, with nowhere else to escape, some passengers run onto the airport tarmac. Others use anything they can to protect themselves.
Second shots went in, and I just grabbed the luggage and I saw him making walls and walls of luggages and I could see guy who was walking towards the escalator and he just
pointed1 them down.
After making hundreds of fleet into the terminal, the gunman is shot by the police multiple times in the chest and leaves.
Los Angles Airport police responded immediately to the calls and they trapped the individuals through the airport and engaged him in gunfire in terminal 3 and we were able to successfully take him into
custody2.
His motivate is still unclear, but what is known is the gunman intended tocause much more destruction. Sources say he has three magazines of
ammunition3 for his sort of rifle.
The story is still developing as
investors4 are
gathering5 physical evidence,questioning witnesses and bring, trying to get a picture of the
alleged6 killer7 into sharper focus again. He is a 23-year old male, Paul, there is something what we are learning feed in by now, a familiar pattern
lone8 male, with a sort of rifle, possibly motivated by
hatred9 of federal government.
L, came face to face with the gunman, who asked him a question ,his answer maybe the reason, he is alive to tell us a story tonight. We will speak by phone.