Following the shooting at LAX Airport, the first news conference was held explaining briefly what happened today. Chief of police Patrick Gannon explained.
“Thank you mayor. Patrick Gannon. I’m the chief of police here at LA International airport. As the mayor indicated 9:20 this morning, an individual came into Terminal 3 of this airport, pulled an assault rifle out of a bag and began to open fire in the terminal.
“He proceeded up into the screening are where TSA Screeners are and continued shooting, and went pass the screeners back into the airport itself.
“Personnel officers from LA Airport police responded immediately to the call, they tracked the individual through the airport, and engaged him in gunfire in terminal 3, and were able to successfully take him into custody. We had an officer involved shooting that took place.
“As you can imagine, a large amount of chaos took place during this entire incident. We believe at this point that it was a lone shooter. That he acted at least right now, was the only person that was armed in this incident. There’s a tremendous amount of investigative work that will need to be done and I will turn that over to the FBI in just a little bit.
“But nonetheless, we have done security sweep through the entire airport. We feel confident that this particular incident is tied to terminal 3 and terminal 3 only.
“And that’s all we have right now. There’s a tremendously amount of investigative work that will need to be accomplish. We have multiple victims that have been shot and have been transported. And we’ve had some other injuries as well, in additional to the suspect himself.
“I don’t have anymore information than that. I don’t want to give out information that may not be consistent later on, and so I appreciate your corporation in just getting this little bit of information out now.”
According to the official twitter page of LAX, 7 people were injured and taken to 6 different locations.
