{"id":8324,"date":"2015-01-02T13:14:55","date_gmt":"2015-01-02T21:14:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/?p=8324"},"modified":"2015-01-21T16:20:37","modified_gmt":"2015-01-22T00:20:37","slug":"federal-prosecutors-will-seek-death-penalty-lax-shooter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/?p=8324","title":{"rendered":"Federal Prosecutors Will Seek Death Penalty Against LAX Shooter"},"content":{"rendered":"

LOS ANGELES<\/strong>\u00a0– Federal prosecutors announced today that they plan to seek the death penalty against the alleg\"Eastern-District-of-TX\"<\/a>ed shooter who killed a TSA officer at Los Angeles International Airport and wounded others, according to a court document filed Friday in U.S. District Court.<\/p>\n

Paul Anthony Ciancia,<\/strong> 24, was charged with 11 federal counts in connection with the Nov. 1, 2013 attack, when authorities allege he opened fire with a semiautomatic rifle in the airport’s busy Terminal 3.<\/p>\n

He has pleaded not guilty to the charges in December 2013.<\/p>\n

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Paul Anthony Ciancia<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The alleged shooting at the airport resulted in the death of Transportation Security Administration Officer Gerardo I. Hernandez<\/strong> and three other people wounded.<\/p>\n

Hernandez, 39, was the first TSA employee killed in the line of duty since the agency was formed after the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks.<\/p>\n

The notice to seek the death penalty petition to the court, states that Ciancia intended to kill Hernandez and “engaged in an act of violence, knowing that the act created a grave risk of death to a person.”<\/p>\n

Federal prosecutors allege that Ciancia \u00a0also engage in “reckless disregard for human life,” maintaining that he terrorized many airline passenger causing them to fear for their lives, officials said.<\/p>\n

Prosecutors declined to comment on the case.<\/p>\n

Ciancia, a New Jersey native living in Los Angeles, was shot in the head and leg during a gun battle with airport police. \u00a0He is being jailed at the federal detention center in downtown Los Angeles.<\/p>\n