LAX gunmen arraigned

23-year-old Paul Anthony Ciancia has been charged with the murder of a federal US Security agent at Los Angeles Airport on Friday. If Ciancia is convicted, prosecutors are expected to demand the death penalty.

LAX international Airport is once more fully operational after about 1,550 flights with 167,000 passengers were disrupted due to the shooting.

US Attorney Andre Birotte explained how the accused youth pulled a .223-calibre M&P-15 assault rifle out of his bag and fired multiple rounds at point-blank range at Transportation Security Administration (TSA) officer Gerardo Hernandez, 39. Realising the officer had not succumbed to the shots; Ciancia went back and shot him again. 

Head of the FBI's LA office, David Bowdich, said a signed handwritten note was found in the clothes of the accused. The note read he made a conscious decision to kill multiple TSA employees in order to instil fear "into their traitorous minds'."