Texas Police Kill Gunmen at Exhibit Featuring Cartoons of Muhammad
By LIAM STACK
Two assailants in Garland shot a private security guard and were, in turn, killed by the police at an event hosted by an anti-Islam group.
F.B.I. investigators on Monday outside the Curtis Culwell Center in Garland, Tex., where two gunmen opened fire Sunday night before they were shot and killed by police officers. The gunmen’s bodies remained where they fell well into the day on Monday.
A law enforcement official said Elton Simpson of Phoenix was one of two gunmen killed after opening fire at an exhibit in Garland, Tex. Officials later identified the second gunman as Nadir Soofi.
Two assailants in Garland shot a private security guard and were, in turn, killed by the police at an event hosted by an anti-Islam group.
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