One Army recruiter was killed Monday and a second was wounded in a shooting at a recruiting office, and a suspect was arrested, police said.Here's an extra report:
Police Lt. Terry Hastings said the recruiter was shot when a man in a black SUV opened fire on the office in west Little Rock at about 10:30 a.m.
The vehicle was stopped on Interstate 630 a short time later and a suspect was taken into custody. Hastings said the suspect pulled over and surrendered without incident.
Police said they found an assault rifle in the vehicle.
Authorities say the incident occurred around 10:00 a.m. at a U.S. Army Navy Career Center inside the Ashley Square Shopping Center at 9112 North Rodney Parham Road. According to Lt. Terry Hastings with the Little Rock Police Department, two enlisted soldiers standing outside the office were hit when the unidentified suspect drove up and began shooting.My condolences to the victims of this savage crime.
Both of the wounded were taken to a nearby hospital, where one of the victims died a short time later, according to police.
UPDATE: wouldn't you know it: the perpetrator was a Muslim convert:
A Muslim convert who said he was opposed to the U.S. military shot two soldiers outside an Arkansas recruiting station, killing one of the soldiers, police said Monday.Jihad Watch says that the culprit studied Islam in Yemen. Gateway Pundit asks if this is a case of "sudden jihadi syndrome". And Breitbart says that the culprit will be charged with one count of murder and 15 counts of terrorism.
“This individual appears to have been upset with the military, the Army in particular, and that’s why he did what he did,” Little Rock Police Lt. Terry Hastings said in a phone interview.
“He has converted to Muslim here in the past few years,” Hastings said. “To be honest we’re not completely clear on what he was upset about. He had never been in the military.”
Hastings identified the man in custody as Carlos Bledsoe, 24, of Little Rock, who was going by the name of Abdul Hakim Mujahid Muhammad. He did not have further details. The names of the soldiers were not released, nor was the condition of the wounded soldier.
ABC News (also via Hot Air) reports that the FBI had been on Mujahid Muhammed's trail for awhile. It's a shame they didn't apprehend him in time before he committed his sick crime.
Update 2: has Obama issued a statement about this yet? The Weekly Standard says he hasn't.
UPDATE 3 : STILL NO CONDEMNATION YET FROM THE COMMANDER IN CHIEF.
Yes, it's the jihad. Does anyone else sense gun-control laws stemming from this. Like the ramming of the Blair Holt bill through to "save more lives."
ReplyDeleteMore outrage, in that the following gets special protection, but apparently not recruitments:
ReplyDeleteU.S. Attorney General Eric Holder dispatched the U.S. Marshals Service to protect "appropriate people and facilities around the nation" in the wake of the murder of late-term abortion provider Dr. George Tiller in Wichita, Kansas on Sunday morning.