Los Angeles, July 6: The heavily armed Egyptian immigrant who fatally shot two people at the ticket counter of Israel's national airline had gone to the Los Angeles airport to kill, the FBI said.
"Why he did that is what we are still trying to determine," FBI special agent Richard Garcia said yesterday, a day after the shootout at the us' third-busiest airport.
Hesham Mohamed Hadayet was the fourth person in line at the El Al counter when he opened fire, authorities said. He fired 10 or 11 bullets before he was fatally shot himself by an airline security guard.
Three other people were wounded, including a guard who was stabbed by Hadayet as he fought with the wounded gunman. A fourth bystander suffered heart trouble after the attack.
The slayings came on Independence Day, when the possibility of terror attacks had put security on high alert around the country.
Bureau Report
