[Unknown Freeper]

Shooting took place on the "upper level." That's not the lower level ticket desks; that's the boarding area and seat assignment desks.

Would that mean these people had gone past a screener already?

[Dr. Eckleburg]

Sounds to me like the guy was waiting to board the plane. LAX said an El AL flight was due to leave at 2 p.m. today.

FWIW, the fact of a small plane crash with dozens of injuries and fatalities occurring simultaneous to some kind of possible terrorism at LAX on the 4th of July is awfully coincidental.

As coincidental as two planes colliding over Germany, perhaps.