LA airport gunman sent suicidal text

The father of the young man suspected of carrying out a fatal shooting at Los Angeles International Airport called his local police chief around the time of the shooting to report that his son had sent a suicidal text message to a sibling and he needed to find him, a New Jersey police chief said.

Paul Ciancia, father of the 23-year-old suspect of the same name, called Pennsville Police Chief Allen Cummings in the early afternoon yesterday 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 The Associated Press.