Ukraine

[CharlesHarris]

This also reminds me of the CIA shootings on January 25, 1993, outside the CIA headquarters campus in Langley, Virginia. Lack of situational awareness was a factor contributing to several of the deaths. CIA personnel who had recently returned from overseas assignments left manouvering distance ahead of their vehicles in the que and were able to take prompt evasive action to save their lives. Because personal weapons are prohibited on the CIA campus none of the waiting employees were armed. The vehicle que was outside the gate and security perimeter so no armed personnel were present to engage the active shooter.

Pakistani national Mir Aimal Kansi killed two CIA employees in their cars as they were waiting at a stoplight and wounded three others. At around 8 a.m. on January 25, 1993, Kansi stopped a brown Datsun station wagon behind a number of vehicles waiting at a red traffic light on the eastbound side of Route 123, Fairfax County. The vehicles were waiting to make a left turn into the main entrance of CIA headquarters. Kansi emerged from his vehicle with an AKM semi-automatic rifle, and proceeded to move among the lines of vehicles, firing a total of 10 rounds, killing Lansing H. Bennett, 66, and [my neighbor] Frank Darling, 28. Three others were left with gunshot wounds. Darling was shot first and later received additional gunshot wounds to the head after Kansi shot the other people. According to the CIA press release, "all of the victims were full-time or contract employees with the agency." No other details were revealed.

Kansi fled the country and was placed on the FBI Ten Most Wanted Fugitives list, sparking a four-year international manhunt. He was captured by a joint FBI–CIA/Inter-Services Intelligence task force in Pakistan in 1997 and rendered to the United States to stand trial. He was found guilty of capital and first-degree murder, and was executed by lethal injection in 2002.