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Pentagon Gunman Killed after Shooting 2 Policeman Posted on 3/5/2010
Resentment of the U.S. government and suspicions over the 9/11 attacks have surfaced in writings by the California man identified as the gunman who shot 2 Pentagon police officers before he was killed.
John Patrick Bedell, 36, of Hollister, CA, was identified as the shooter.
The attack took place at the subway entrance to the Pentagon.
Police Chief Comments Chief of Pentagon police Richard Keevill said, "He just reached in his pocket, pulled out a gun and started shooting at point-blank range."
Keevil said, "He walked up very cool. He had no real emotion on his face."
Police Chief Keevill said the gunman was well armed with two 9 millimeter semiautomatic weapons and several magazines of ammunition.
Authorities also found more ammunition in the shooter's car.
The Pentagon officers returned fire with semiautomatic weapons, sending the shooter to the hospital with critical injuries.
The shooter later died.
Troubled Individual Bedell harbored ill feelings toward the government and the armed forces.
The shooter questioned the circumstances behind the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.
Marine Death A user by the name JPatrickBedell posted on the Internet that he was "determined to see that justice is served" in the death of Marine Col. James Sabow.
Sabow was found dead in the backyard of his California home in 1991.
The death was ruled a suicide but the case has long been the source of theories of a cover up
The user named JPatrickBedell wrote the Sabow case was "a step toward establishing the truth of events such as the September 11 demolitions."
The same posting railed against the government's enforcement of marijuana laws and included links to the author's 2006 court case in Orange County, CA, for cultivating marijuana and resisting a police officer.
Hatred for Government The assault at the Pentagon came 4 months after a deadly attack on the Army's Fort Hood, TX.
Hatred of the government motivated a man in Texas last month to fly a small plane into a building housing Internal Revenue Service offices, killing an IRS employee and himself.
Officers Released The two officers injured have been released from the hospital.
One suffered a thigh wound and the other was hit in the shoulder.
Chief Keeveill said both were superficial injuries.
No Connection to Terrorism Keevill said they'd found no immediate connection to domestic or foreign terrorism.
The shooter appeared to have acted alone.
Pentagon Traffic About 23,000 military and civilian employees work at the Pentagon.
The subway system carries 750,000 passengers a day during the week.
