Posted on 05/04/2015 6:03:53 AM PDT by GIdget2004
Two men who opened fire outside a contest for cartoons depicting the Muslim prophet Muhammad were killed by police Sunday at a Garland ISD events center.
A senior FBI official confirmed that one of the suspects in the attack has been identified as Elton Simpson, an Arizona man who was previously the subject of a terrorism investigation, ABC News reports.
FBI agents and a bomb squad reportedly converged on Simpson's apartment in Phoenix, where police were conducting an initial search with a robot.
KPNX-TV (Channel 12), an NBC affiliate in Arizona, reported that the two suspects had been roommates. The second man, though, has not been named officially or in media accounts.
Simpson was well known to the FBI, ABC News reported. Five years ago he was convicted for lying to federal agents about his plans to travel to Africa, "but a judge ruled the government did not adequately prove he was going to join a terror group there."
According to ABC News, officials suspect Simpson was behind several Twitter messages sent out before the attack, the last of which came half an hour before the shooting and used the hashtag "#texasattack."
“May Allah accept us as mujahideen [those engaged in jihad],” the tweet said.
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next door to the office Apt
Yes
Yes,the apt is in the back
Look how close Phoenix is to the open border
Yet they go after Sheriff Joe
Elton Simpson be his slave name.
What be his jihady warrior name?
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Jeez, I guess the Garland Police did not get the memo that “Black Lives Matter”.
That will be the lib chorus. UK Daily Mail already published a shameless hit piece on her. The piece had AP in the by-line, so it might get wide play.
It seems to me Gellar proved her point. The events bear out her claims.
What's his convert MUSLIM name, eh?
Agreed
Lol
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