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Police Say No Shooting Occurred at LAX

posted by janrinok on Monday August 29 2016, @02:40PM   Printer-friendly
from the better-panic-than-sorry dept.

The BBC is reporting:

Unconfirmed reports of gunshots, later described by police as just "loud noises", have sparked evacuations at Los Angeles airport.

People fled the airport on Sunday night amid the shooting reports, with scenes of abandoned luggage on pavements.

Traffic to the terminal was halted and no flights were allowed to land, but operations have now resumed.

LA police tweeted that no shots had been fired and there were no injuries. They are investigating the noises.

Thank you to the submitters who brought this story to our attention.

An Anonymous Coward writes:

The L.A. Times says there are unconfirmed reports of shots fired in three terminals at the L.A. airport.

http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-airport-shooter-20160828-snap-story.html#nt=oft12aH-1li3

-- OriginalOwner_ writes:

Heavy.com reports

no confirmation of shooting can be verified

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  • (Score: 0, Troll) by VLM on Monday August 29 2016, @03:00PM

    by VLM (445) on Monday August 29 2016, @03:00PM (#394738)

    Note the TSA checkpoint was used three years ago as a large collection of disarmed victims in a mass shooting. So there's history, in LA.

    I remember being surprised the cops executed the 2013 shooter... shot him and let him slowly bleed out for an hour and refused to let medical people treat him. I guess cops do this all the time now, like in that nightclub shooting in FL, but at the time I was surprised to see it being reported, didn't think cops rolled that way. Its not like the movies where an ambulance rolls up and they treat the "bad guy", if the cops want they'll kill the bad guy on site by forcing the medical people out of the area. Judge Jury and Executioner. Not that the guy in 2013 was likely to be not guilty, LOL, but letting a guy slowly bleed out for an hour sounds surprisingly "cruel and unusual punishment" for leftist California.

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  • (Score: 3, Informative) by zero_cool on Monday August 29 2016, @04:59PM

    by zero_cool (2924) on Monday August 29 2016, @04:59PM (#394812)

    he was not murdered by cops, he was taken too hospital and stood trial :
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2013_Los_Angeles_International_Airport_shooting [wikipedia.org]

    • (Score: 4, Funny) by wonkey_monkey on Monday August 29 2016, @05:24PM

      by wonkey_monkey (279) on Monday August 29 2016, @05:24PM (#394826) Homepage

      You get out of here with your facts, you!

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    • (Score: 1, Troll) by VLM on Monday August 29 2016, @05:42PM

      by VLM (445) on Monday August 29 2016, @05:42PM (#394839)

      You are completely correct as per my further research. I didn't even find any similarity to the '02 shooting at the LA airport. I had forgotten about the '02 shooting until I researched this one in more depth.

      Must have been some shooting at some airport from a couple years ago that I'm remembering....