Paul Ciancia, the owner of an auto-body shop in southern New Jersey and father of the 23-year-old suspect of the same name, called Pennsville Police Chief Allen Cummings in the early afternoon to tell him one of his children had received a text message from the younger Ciancia ‘in reference to him taking his own life,’ the chief told Associated Press.
Across the country and around the same time on Friday, authorities say, his son was shooting his way past a security checkpoint at the airport with a semi-automatic rifle, killing a security officer and wounding other people.
Ciancia was injured in a shootout and taken into custody, police said.
A motive wasn’t clear, but Ciancia was wearing fatigues and carrying a bag containing a handwritten note.
The note said that he ‘wanted to kill TSA and pigs,’ according to a law enforcement official who was not authorized to discuss the investigation publicly and spoke on condition of anonymity.
Across the country and around the same time on Friday, authorities say, his son was shooting his way past a security checkpoint at the airport with a semi-automatic rifle, killing a security officer and wounding other people.
Ciancia was injured in a shootout and taken into custody, police said.
A motive wasn’t clear, but Ciancia was wearing fatigues and carrying a bag containing a handwritten note.
The note said that he ‘wanted to kill TSA and pigs,’ according to a law enforcement official who was not authorized to discuss the investigation publicly and spoke on condition of anonymity.