Posted on 08/04/2021 6:09:49 AM PDT by 11th_VA
A PENTAGON police officer was allegedly stabbed to death by Austin William Lanz — a male suspect who was additionally accused of attacking a cop in Georgia.
The officer died after being stabbed on Tuesday as gunfire erupted at a transit heart exterior of The Pentagon.
The suspect — recognized as 27-year-old William Lanz of Georgia — died on the scene after getting shot by legislation enforcement, The Associated Press reported.
Shortly after 10.30am on Tuesday, the Pentagon was placed on lockdown after a police officer was attacked on a bus platform.
Pentagon Force Protection Agency chief Woodrow Kusse stated gunshots ensued through the violence, which led to “several casualties.”
The two deaths had been confirmed to AP by officers who wished to stay nameless and weren’t approved to focus on the matter.
And it’s believed that two bystanders had been additionally injured.
The officer who died was ambushed by Lanz and stabbed in the neck, two legislation enforcement officers advised AP.
Two legislation enforcement officers additionally advised ABC News, that Lanz had disarmed the officer after stabbing him and shot the officer together with his personal gun.
The assault prompted responding officers to fatally shoot Lanz, however it’s unknown suspect shot himself or was killed by responding officers.
And an investigation is ongoing to decide a motive for the assault.
Lanz, who reportedly had enlisted in the U.S. Marine Corps in 2012 and was “administratively separated” only a month later, was arrested earlier this 12 months.
Lanz was arrested in April in Cobb County, Georgia, on legal trespassing and housebreaking fees, in accordance to on-line courtroom information obtained by AP.
The information additionally present a separate legal case was filed in opposition to Lanz … making a terrorist menace, and a cost for rioting in a penal establishment…
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This is ... not well written.
Not well written, but provides more info than any MSM report I could find
Thanks for posting. Something beats nothing. There is a lot that our media just won’t talk about.
Yeah - the lack of reporting on this story suggests the purp was not white
Reads like it is a Google translation of arabic or something. Also, no pics of Austin William Lanz to be found
Legislation enforcement?
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First person ever shot by legislation enforcement. I think you may be write.
I have a five year old grandson who writes better than the author of this article. Reading it was mentally painful.
I saw a pic in a British rag earlier that showed a heavy bald white guy with tattoos on his neck. It has since disappeared
If that’s the case, the MSM is being strangely quiet about this
Yes, it’s bizarre. Reads like something written by a non-native speaker of English, a drunken one, at that.
... or the British rag had the wrong Austin William Lanz
The article seems to suggest the perpetrator had shot a police officer in Georgia. Maybe they are afraid a “woke” prosecutor let him wonder among us
“Legislation enforcement?”
Yeah, me too.
I don’t think that’s the guy related to this story. He’s wanted for some murders in South Carolina and was captured in Jacksonville, FL.
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