LA airport gunman to plead guilty to murderous shooting plot

Ciancia, an unemployed mechanic who showed no remorse when he pleaded guilty to 11 felony counts stemming from the Los Angeles Airport shooting, answered “yes” and “no” to all questions posed by the presiding judge.

The pleas are part of a deal with prosecutors that will keep Ciancia from facing the death penalty.

No sentence, she said, will bring peace or closure to her family.

They agreed not to seek the death penalty under a plea agreement that avoided a lengthy trial.

Federal prosecutors described the Los Angeles Airport Shooting as an act of “substantial planning and premeditation”.

He signed the note and added the title, “Pissed-off Patriot” beneath his name.

FILE – This undated file photo provided by the Federal Bureau of Investigation shows Paul Ciancia.

“I’m so sorry that I have to leave you pre-maturely, but it is for the greater good of humanity”.

Ciancia shot officer Gerardo Hernandez at a screening checkpoint 12 times. During the arrest, officers drew their guns and instructed nearby passengers on the sidewalk to move inside, he said.

Ana Hernandez with her children receiving USA flag [Photo by Mark Booster/AP Images] Speer said he was helping a shell-shocked passenger move slowly down the hallway when he saw a bullet hit Brian Ludmer, a teacher, in the calf.

“A split second before I could say, ‘Oh my God, ‘ I felt boom, boom in the back and upper left arm. I was thrown forward from the blast”, said Speer, who ran wounded into a convenience store to hide.

“If you want to play that game where you pretend that every American is a terrorist, you’re going to learn what a self-fulfilling prophecy is”, he wrote, according to court documents.

An airport spokesman said 18 flights were delayed – nine inbound and nine outbound – and none was canceled.

No one was hurt, unlike a similar panic incident last Sunday were 3 people were injured in a rush to get away from suspect bags. “I didn’t know what to feel”, said Grigsby, 38. Ciancia then “walked purposefully down the upward escalator” to shoot him again at point-blank range, the plea agreement states. I’m not a victim of the situation.

“If you made the conscious decision to put on a TSA costume and violate peoples’ rights this morning, I made the conscious decision to try to kill you this morning”, the note stated.

Officers found a handwritten note and ammunition in a duffel bag Ciancia had dropped.

He said he’s satisfied that the man who carried out the shooting, Paul Ciancia, will get sentenced to life in prison after he pleaded guilty to 11 charges including murder in the case.