Airport Agent and Gunman Killed in U.S. City of Los Angeles

Edited by Juan Leandro
2013-11-02 16:33:27

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Los Angeles, November 2 (RHC)-- Operations at Los Angeles International Airport in the U.S. state of California were suspended Friday after an agent with the Transportation Security Administration, the TSA, was shot and killed by a gunman at a security checkpoint.

The Los Angeles Times is reporting that the suspect, himself a TSA agent, was killed and that three or four other TSA employees were wounded in the shooting inside Terminal 3 of the airport.

According to reports, the gunman opened fire with a high-powered rifle. The Los Angeles Fire Department responded to the incident at the airport and two terminals were evacuated and all flights were grounded.

U.S. President Barack Obama was reportedly briefed on the security incident and the White House was put in touch with law enforcement officials.

Hundreds of people have died by fatal gunshot wounds in the U.S. since the massacre of 26 elementary school students and teachers in Newtown, Connecticut, last December, based on data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.


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