Posted on 12/23/2017 8:56:09 AM PST by lightman
After three shootings throughout Harrisburg on Friday, one suspect is dead and an extensive police investigation is underway.
Authorities identified the suspect as 51-year-old Ahmed Aminamin El-Mofty at a news conference late Friday night.
As the investigation into the shooting the suspect continues, here's what we know and what we don't know.
What we know
The series of incidents began around 4 p.m. Friday afternoon, when there were a number of gunshots fired in the area of Third Street near the Pennsylvania Capitol.
Dauphin County District Attorney EdMarsico said El-Mofty initially fired "several shots" at a police car belonging to a Capitol Police officer at 4:10 p.m. in the area of 3rd and Walnut streets. One shot came "very close" to hitting the officer, but the officer was able to escape uninjured.
El-Mofty then fired several shots at a Pennsylvania State Police trooper about 30 minutes after the initial shooting.
"She was struck by one of those shots, but is doing well," Marsico said, adding the trooper is expected to make a full recovery.
Marsico added the trooper was chased by El-Mofty to the Allison Hill section of the city to the area of 17th and Mulberry Streets, where he opened fire at officers with two handguns.
Officers returned fire, shooting and killing El-Mofty. A device was found next to El-Mofty, but Marsico said it ended up being "of no import."
No other police officers or civilian injuries were reported. Marsico said it "certainly appears that there's no doubt" he was targeting police officers.
Marsico commended responding agencies, and said the incident could have been "tragic" given that the shots were fired at police cars in rush hour traffic, and then into a residential neighborhood.
The Federal Bureau of Investigation is investigating the incident with local law enforcement. Marsico said EL-Mofty has ties to the East and West shore. El-Mofty also has ties to the Middle East, and traveled there recently, according to Marsico.
Records did not produce any previous criminal background on El-Mofty.
Next to a Camp Hill home listed as one of El-Mofty's last known addresses, a neighbor told a PennLive reporter that he couldn't say whether El-Mofty had lived at the residence or not.
However, he said, a number of unmarked police cars appeared outside of his home last night.
The neighbor, who would only identify himself as Ben, said that over the past few years a number of men had come and gone from the place, making it difficult for him to remember El-Mofty's face specifically.
"There's so many guys coming in an out it's impossible to say," he said.
Last year, he added, immigration authorities raided the property.
Authorities also don't believe there are any other suspects.
What we don't know
Information about El-Mofty is limited.
Marsico declined to comment on if Friday's shootings were an act of terrorism, saying the motive was still under investigation.
"Obviously, we don't want people to run wild in speculation," he said.
Marsico also declined to say whether or not El-Mofty was known to officers prior to Friday's shootings.
El-Mofty recently traveled to the Middle East, according to Marsico, but it is not known where he specifically went.
Authorities have not released the name of the trooper who was shot.
http://www.pennlive.com/news/2017/12/immigration_authorities_had_ra.html#incart_river_home
He's a Mooslim, so obviously it's NOT TERRORISM.
Ping
Ahmed El-Mofty
I’d say we know plenty.
To braindead “diversity” nutcases, 12 people carrying “GOD HATES FAGS” signs represent global Christianity.
But the thousands of Muslims murdering Christians every year have NOTHING to do with Islam.
They’ve got the ears of the anti-American MSM....... Muslim agit-prop is setting us up for more hate-filled Muslim refugees in our communities plotting to kill us.
Americans cannot even fathom the kind of visceral hatred these savage deranged Muslims have for us. The more they get from us, the more they hate us.
They are welcomed into the US, sponging off Christian Americans’ tax dollars.... getting a free education, housing, stipends, loads of social services and multiple US govt checks (using several identities-—they just rearrange the spelling their weird names).
(emphasis added)
UPDATE: Dauphin County District Attorney Ed Marsico has identified the shooter as Ahmed Aminamin El-Mofty, 51. Marsico said if anyone has any information about El-Mofty, they should call 911. El-Mofty has ties to the Middle East and recently traveled there.
I live in PA and didn’t hear about this!!!
I wonder which mosques he attended?
5.56mm
early this morning on the news
Well, we know he’s a Muslim, though the media does its best to obscure that significant fact.
Bulldoze the mosque to the ground, confiscate all his assets, deport his entire family, and anyone remotely related to him.
“Obviously, we don’t want people to run wild in speculation,”
And why exactly is that your business?
"They all look alike to me?"
LoL
Seize their assets and waterboard them before making them walk into the ocean to swim back to their crappy home countries . Stop wasting taxpayer money on flights.
And they use taxpayers money to support their multiple wives who have lots of children while our Christian population is brainwashed into believing it is really evil to have children, esp. over two children since you are destroying the earth. It is really evil to have white boys especially!!!! who will be completely emasculated after years in their indoctrination system of hate for self ( if you are white and/or Christian).
The Malthusian, elite pedophiles want to destroy Christian worldview and replace it with the irrational religions, like islam and atheism and satanism (all the same)—where boy harems are good, as is polygamy, homosexuality, sodomy, pedophilia, slavery, etc. Anything that is irrational and a vile, degrading use of self or others.
They need the theology of Christianity GONE for their New Age Religion where Evil is Good. Emotions have to destroy the possibility of rational thought in rational animals to reduce us to cattle—to be herded and controlled by the few sodomite elites.
“Ahmed El-Mofty
I’d say we know plenty.”
I’d say we have ALL we need to know! I just wonder how many thousands of El Moftys we have in this country today? Anyway, a dead El Mofty is a good El Mofty. Christmas came early in PA.
.............disgusting...............
It’s a relief to know the guy is dead.
Now throw his cohorts out of our country.
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