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Subscribe to RSSThe gunman was subdued after shooting a security guard in the arm in the offices of the conservative lobbying group. NBC's Brian Williams reports.
Updated at 6:45 p.m. ET: A gunman who shot a security guard Wednesday at the Family Research Council office in Washington, D.C., was carrying a handgun and several additional rounds of ammunition, federal investigators told NBC News.
Washington, D.C., police say the man walked into the headquarters of the conservative Christian lobbying group around 10:45 a.m. When challenged by the security guard, the gunman shot the guard in the arm with a Sig Sauer 9 mm handgun he pulled from a backpack.
The wounded guard, identified as Leo Johnson, wrestled the gun away from the shooter and prevented him from hurting anyone else, police said.
The suspect was then detained by other guards, and both district police and the FBI responded. He was taken into custody by FBI agents. The FBI will have jurisdiction if the incident turns out to be a hate crime.
Kevin Lamarque / Reuters
Members of the FBI enter the Family Research Council office after a shooting Wednesday in Washington, D.C.
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The suspect’s name has not been released, but two law enforcement officials told NBC News he is Floyd Corkins, 28, from nearby Herndon, Va.
Federal officials said the suspect the backpack also contained materials about Chick-fil-A restaurants.
Another official said the suspect bought the gun used in the shooting five days ago.
The FBI said the security guard is being treated in the hospital and "doing OK."
“The security officer here is a hero, as far as I’m concerned,” Metropolitan Police Department Chief Cathy Lanier told NBCWashington.com. “He did his job. The person never made it past farther than the front door.”
An armed man walked into the Washington headquarters of the Family Research Council and shot a security guard, according to authorities. NBCNews.com's Dara Brown reports.
Jacqueline Maguire, FBI Washington Field Office spokeswoman, also called the guard "a hero."
"And he did an excellent job of stopping the gunman from getting any further into the building and from anyone else getting injured or shot by him," she said.
One law enforcement official told NBC News it's fairly clear the Family Research Council was the man's target, though the FBI has yet to specify either a motive or the target of the attack.
The Associated Press reported that Corkins had been volunteering at a community center for gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender people. Another official told the AP the shooter made a negative reference about the work of the Family Research Council before opening fire.
Tony Perkins of the Family Research Council sent an e-mail to members last month in support of comments by the restaurant chain's president, Dan Cathy, who criticized same-sex marriage.
The comments touched off a public clash. Supporters on "Chick-fil-A Appreciation Day" on Aug. 1 flooded the chain's franchises around the country and was countered with "kiss-ins" by same-sex couples at assorted locations Aug. 3.
On its website, the Family Research Council founded in 1983, says it advocates "faith, family and freedom in public policy and public opinion" and other issues. It lobbies against gay rights, abortion and embryonic stem cell research.
In a statement, Family Research Council President Tony Perkins said, "The police are investigating this incident. Our first concern is with our colleague who was shot today. Our concern is for him and his family."
Thirty-four gay rights groups issued a joint statement condemning the shooting:
"We were saddened to hear news of the shooting this morning at the offices of the Family Research Council. Our hearts go out to the shooting victim, his family, and his co-workers. The motivation and circumstances behind today's tragedy are still unknown, but regardless of what emerges as the reason for this shooting, we utterly reject and condemn such violence. We wish for a swift and complete recovery for the victim of this terrible incident."
White House spokesman Jay Carney said the president, who was traveling in Iowa Wednesday, was informed of the shooting shortly after 1 p.m.
"The president expressed his concern for the individual injured in the shooting and his strong belief that this type of violence has no place in our society," Carney said.
Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney said in a statement that he was appalled. "There is no place for such violence in our society," he said. "My prayers go out to the wounded security guard and his family, as well as all the people at the Family Research Council whose sense of security has been shattered by today's horrific events."
This story includes reporting by NBC News' Andrew Mach and The Associated Press.
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BO divides the people? Nobody divided this country as completely as George W Bush. Is your moniker a lament? Or a celebration of a divided country. I thing the level of hate that you show indicates that you think we need much more division.
my screen name is what it is geniusl obama is a divisive demagogue
...we are divided nation.
the democrat vice president of the united states is telling blacks if republicans get elected they will be put back in chains.
...if i was black....and i heard the vice president of the united states say this...i might even go out and kill white republicans...for if they get elected...the vice president has told me they would put me in chains..."Again"
nah.....democrats are not dividing america......they are trying to get black americans to kill white republicans
bo, the way you so gleefully contribute to that division does not make me believe you are that concerned.
i'm a mirror; showing you your own intolerance
If a conservative shoots someone, he did it because he's a hate filled piece of pus-laden disease that should be eradicated from existence.
If a liberal shoots someone, he did it because a hate filled piece of pus-laden disease conservative that should be eradicated from existence DROVE him to do it.
ROFLMAO
But if you murder a doctor in church, the religious fanatics will forgive you as long as you are a "pro life" fiscal conservative. I LOVE it! Pro-life murder. Kinda says it all about conservative flip flop philosophy.
everybody is supposed to be forgiven loon John; not just murderers of doctors. you are a babbling lib idiot struggling to make a coherent point
if only the doctor was an unborn baby; then it's ok to make an incision in the base of its skull; during the 3rd trimester; and suck his brains out while alive!
I'm sorry you guys hijacked my comment.
I was just pointing out how ridiculous the extreme radical left can be with their justifications. My post was not meant as a platform for debate about abortion... this thread is about a shooting.
He has every right to buy that gun so get used to it.
didn't have the right to use it though.
Neither did the guy who shot George tiller. That doesn't stop conservatives from calling that guy a hero.
yes all conservatives call him a hero. gosh you're an idiot spewing things you cant back up
Well, when you kill a murderer of babies who are almost at term, its a bit different. The guy who shot Tiller didn't shoot a guard at the ACLU building, did he?
Nicole.......
There was no justification or excuse for that murder. And it WAS a murder.
And before you post a comment to what I just said, how about you tell me how many homeless and/or abused children are sleeping in your home right now? How many of your fellow church members are lining up at the orphanages to sign up as foster parents and telling the social workers that you don't need the money that goes along with taking care of them, to send that money on to the mothers who are keeping their children but can't afford to care for them properly?
When all you put your VOTING money where your pious mouths are, we can have a discussion.
How is it different, exactly? In both cases the victim of the shooting was engaged in a perfectly legal activity.
Libtard with bad aim and no plan. What a joke. Now he goes to the pokey.
Insults don't really help.
...@jock: Neither do whining, murdering liberal extremists. ...We should just ban all gun sales to liberals.
Like I said, insults don't help.
Looks like some people are fed up with someone else's values! I myself included, my thoughts are for a speedy recovery for the guard.
Another not so inspiring win for the NRA and gun nuts everywhere. No one died. Almost a waste of a spray of bullets.
Who died?
libtard changed "one died" to no on died" after you pointed out that he was an idiot who did not read the article.
no one died, did you not read the story?
why do you lefties want to destroy the Bill of Rights so badly that you are willing to accept the psycho but not his tool of choice? I guarantee that this POS will have carpet layers and pole polishers setting up his defense fund as we speak. "he is just angry and misguided, its the guns fault and the fault of the conservatives and especially that chick-fil-a guy"
The problem was I didn't bother reading the article, seemed slanted toward stupid conservatives and I don't waste my time on stupid conservatives. Wait a minute that would be any conservative that votes republican who makes less then 250 big a year. You people really suck.
sure idiot; but obama cant find enough rich people to fund obamacare and the other things he's promising; if you think he can pay for everything he's promising just by taxing the "rich" you are deluding yourself. it starts at 250,000/ year and works its way down
johnth-boy,
what are you doing here, you claim conservatives are stupid then show just how stupid you are by making stupid statements that have no more valid reasoning than a bronx cheer and a "nyaa" and wander around blindly following the flock of sheeple into servatude.
it is the conservative that fights to maintain the constitution you live by, if it were not for them your life would be very very different, komrad.
Very happy to see liberals advocating and supporting violence. That means I didn't stock up on ammo for nothing.
You can also rest easy in knowing that they have bad aim and put zero time into planning (just like the morons they vote for).
A mentally disturbed gay liberal attacking a conservative organization.
the left of coarse will claim he was rightwing and a teabagger and a gun nut and that all guns are the root of all evil and the world would be better off with only the military and cops having guns and that the anti-gay world is to blame for this whole tragidy so gay should be made the norm and straight people and conservatives need to be locked up or made to comply with gay rules and that the world needs to go straight to hell in a hand basket on a bullet train with gays at the controls.
...ANOTHER armed attack by the same Obamazombies who keep whining for more oppressive gun control. ...First we have the Aurora, Colorado mass killing by one of their liberal extremist creeps. then, on and on and on with more armed attacks. ...Why don't we just make a gun control law that only prohibits liberals from purchasing guns?
Obama stop a bloodbath. Thanks to the economy that guy could only get 1 gun and no practise shots.
it must be so frustrating being a gay Black man on the down low. maybe thats why obama is failing so bad; he's distracted
More hate, I see. Have you tried having an intelligent conversation about something?
answer your own question loon
does the SPLC consider 'chicka-fil-a' a "hate group" ?
.....is it okay for the SPLC to tell left wing extremists who "to kill" ?
No, we can leave that up to the Family "Research" Council. opps, I mean the tax exempt right wing lobby group. Tony Perkins? Isn't he the guy that directed his followers to serve justice on Dr. George Tiller?
They only serve chicken. He asked for a C0CK sandwich with extra MAYO.
looks like left-wingnuts are itching to go goose-stepping on down the street
I just love the political sensationalism of the headline...That's who the media works everything is political....Can we get some really journalist Reporting..Every News agency is all using politics in it.. It's probably not even politics..More like someone with a personal problem or bug up their butt....
Why don't we hear about the crimes committed by illegal guns that happen every second across the country.. Oh that’s right, there’s no hidden agenda behind them making the news! Those crimes are acceptable..
...Liberal extremists have been doing all the shootin' lately. ...From Aurora, CO to Obama City (aka Chicago) and, now, this.
Where are these illegal guns commiting crime? I want to read the story. It's the criminals, not the guns. Geez!
Yes, sorry. people using legal guns seems to be all that is newsworthy, people using illegal guns seems to not be anymore..
When you divide the country and play people against each other, you can expect MORE of this to happen!!
Liberals as well as Conservatives!!
How are we going to get past anything when people are always pointing fingers at the other side when they BOTH use the same tactics! That's like getting mad in a game because your team doesn't cheat as much as the other!
GROW UP! BOTH SIDES use the same exact methods! Turn on FOX and you hear all kinds of crazy BS about how the world is gonna end b/c of Liberal policies and influence. Turn on MSNBC and you hear how we are all going to the poor house because Conservatives are only concerned about the rich!
GEEZ! You can have your own opinion on things but just realize your opinion is just that - AN OPINION!!!
Who's right? Who's wrong? The only thing that for CERTAIN is we won't see ANY progress if WE can't learn to coexist! What happened to compromise?
I'm sure plenty of responses will include blaming the other party!
Thank you.
Spot on!
From the remarks the Libs are making here today it just shows that it's not about Gun control but it's about people control.
Well, if the gun lobby keeps saying "guns don't kill people; people do," isn't that what they are implying? That we need to be controlling the people rather than the guns? Unless they are suggesting that we have no laws at all?
...Exactly! ...Liberals will kill others when they don't believe in the same stuff that liberals do.
...@jock, we just have to ban all gun sales to liberals.
getagrip, do you really think such an obviously dishonest insult is going to help anything?
people control is in full effect on any liberal college campus. libs are slaves of themselves
...@jock, if the truth is an insult to you, then you really need help.
Aw, come on now. You don't need to be so vengeful just because you couldn't make the grades to get yourself into college. The world needs republican trash collectors, too.
getagrip, the truth is never an insult to me, so if you ever find it, let me know.
This is the same look I had when I asked Bill about Monica. I coulda been someone I was a contender.
I think both sides are guilty of being asses!
I do too, but I side on the side of the real people not very rich and their owners that own this country and every repubican in it.
So, you don't side with Obama, Soros and Hollywood?
rich people arent even real in your book; just like any fascist you de-humanize what you want to get rid of
"just like any fascist you de-humanize what you want to get rid of"
As do you, dear.
I got no use for rich people since it is me that made it possible for them to be rich and now they won't give it back and in fact want to take more away from me and you and keep it. I cannot afford to be a conservative. Neither can most conservatives.
John - I like you. You are a hoot. I am pretty sure that all the rich people get together at the yacht club and drink champagne and talk among themselves about what a deep debt of gratitude they all owe to old Johntho. A hoot, I tell ya.
Another not so inspiring win for the NRA and gun nuts everywhere. No one died. Almost a waste of a spray of bullets
you were hoping to kill some conservative people then....
you need help.
John, what is a gun nut? Are you aware that the NRA helped take out the KKK by pushing for laws allowing black people to have guns? Read Negros With Guns with you pull your head out of your behind.
your idiot posts are a waste of a spray of words. tsk tsk jontho
Hell keck, thats not true, the NRA don't care who, what, or how many get killed, as long as they sell guns. Gun nuts just gotta have guns, more guns is the answer to everything. I'll tell you how stupid gun nuts are, they started buying and hoarding ammunition when Obama took office. Actually he has added gun rights not taken them away. But conservative jackazzes wouldn't say that.
But killed, no, dieing of natural causes like being choked by greed is OK with me. One less Robme/Ruin voter.
Nicole, read "bite my azz" by Peter Goesinya.
People were collecting guns and stocking up on ammo before Obama was born. He voted in Illinois against homeowner's having the right to defend themselves in their homes with guns in a home invasion. People are right to worry.
Tracy, threatening to kill people you disagree with is indeed scary, but it doesn't help your cause much.
Tracy- Is that a threat of violence against "lefties"? Sure sounds like it.
Hmmm
Johntho -
Nice slogan. You do know that the NRA doesn't, and never has, sold guns, right? Yeah, yoou knew that.
Doesn't Tracy and Nicole both make the case on guns should not be in either one of their hands. Anyone that thinks a gun makes them safer is to crazy to own one. And Tracy, you can bite my hand outer azz. I worked all my life, its SOB's like you that I would like to deport. You don't belong in a free democratic society. You belong someplace less civilized.
aaaaagh, wrong answer mpa, The NRA's primary job is to lobby for the weapons manufactures and they do it by selling fear nation wide that democrats and particularly Obama want to take your gun away. They sell fear to cowards that need a gun to "defend" themselves like Zimmerman. And you sick bitches buy it and more guns. To stupid to actually own a gun and you can buy one. The NRA is a big, big problem in this country. But go on being an ignorant arsehole. Going to any way.
Oh Nicole, in answer to your question, a gun nut is one who advocates for more death and destruction by advocating for more guns on the street. Usually this person has bred with a right wing nut and made little screw bellied conservatives. A gun nut is one that thinks a gun is equivalent to fire power, 30 to a 100 shot clips on a gun as being necessary. I hope I give you a better understanding of what a gun nut is. The scary part is these gun nuts get to one as many as they want.
Johntho -
" the NRA don't care who, what, or how many get killed, as long as they sell guns"
Your statement from above. Yet you call me what? "sick bitch" and " ignorant arsehole" and implied coward.
Hmm. I thought we had some fools posting about banning guns for liberals, but in your case I'd say they are right. You should consider medication.
Didn't u call them a HATE GROUP SKREKK??? I know u did, u & ERINNJ. Is it possible that this is a HATE CRIME?? Oh wait, since u and the SPLC called them A HATE GROUP, i guess it's NOT possible to have a hate crime against a HATE GROUP IS IT??
i GUESS IF IT WERE a HOMOSEXUAL group, you'd be beating the drum again saying' THEY'RE TARGETTING HOMOSEXUALS' WOULDN'T U???
I guess u and ERINNJ should take a BOW now that your ACTIVISTS are taking up arms. Like they did to get HOMOSEXUALS to be no longer classified as MENTALLY ILL, except they didn't use GUNS, they used FORGED CREDENTIALS to get INTO AND DISRUPT THE APA meetings REPEATEDLEY, so they COULD GET THEIR WAY.
I read they's trying to do it again, to get the TRANSSEXUALS to be NO LONGER classified as MENTALLY ILL. NOTE there is no MENTION of SCIENCE in reclassifying THEM AS NO LONGER MENTALLY ILL, JUST THE COERCION of the HOMOSEXUAL MILITANTS
Yes, the FRC is most definitely a hate group.
The conservtards have their panties in a bunch over the whole back to chains comment, like they aren't aware that most of the youth in this country throw the phrase "my niggah" around like hippies used to say groovy! I guess they don't know about metaphor. That would be from literature class, I guess you folks failed that one. Chains? Shackles? Hmmm, and how many love songs does that imagery pop up in? Oh, I forgot, conservatives hate anything to do with culture.
is that why the new black panther party said they wanted to skin white people in their homes....and kill white babies at nurseries ?
thanks joe.....the blacks want to skin white people for what you said yesterday
Yeah, right. The black panthers are about as dangerous as you are, maybe less so.
john is an idiot; happily spewing hatred in the name of tolerance.
keck. when did the 20 memebers of the New Black Panthers become "the blacks"? That kind of generailization is what is called bigotry.
the point was the hatred of the New Black Panthers; and the enablers who say nothing against it in our government; will inspire others. jock you are a joke cuz you knew the point being made; it isnt bigotry; it's afacts. you are an enabler of hatred
Yeah, that's about as silly as saying all conservatives are klan members. They aren't are they? Are they?
you had to be a Democrat to join the KKK
bo, another valid point is they (NBP) have not been determined to be a dangerous organization by DHS or DOJ.
Yeah JOHN and U LIBS WOULDN'T if it were a conservative, would u??
Like when a conservative said 'you people' and the left WENT BALLISTIC. Yeah, you hypocrites, I MEAN LIBERALS, are just so OPEN MINDED AND INCLUSIVE, all you HATEFUL rhetoric SHOW that!!
" jock you are a joke cuz you knew the point being made"
Yes, I know the point being made. "Look at the scary black people; they started it."
sorry jock.
...i should have said 'new black panther party'....i didnt mean 'all blacks' ...dang, i tripped up my apologies...of course no sane person wants to skin people and put babies on pikes.
...@Johntho: Get a grip you zombie! ...It's the liberals doing all the shooting from Aurora, CO to Chicago and, now, this. ...No more guns for liberals! ...They are all on psych meds!
As Dave Hester from storage wars would say "YUUUUP !!!!"
But its conservatives that sold them the guns, getagrip = stupid
anbothe idiotic point from jontho; black gun dealers in urban cities use young Black college students who need money in southern colleges to make straw purchases of guns
...@Johntho=gay and unstable
Wow, you do know that we settle our differences in the political arena right?
Sounds like you might want to go on a shootin spree.
You should be more prudent in expressing your desire to kill people.
Get a grip, you say gay like its a bad thing. You must be a redneck conservative that thinks they own the planet.
Johntho~ left to you I would have been left helpless at the hands of the guy who tried to break into my house. The stupid ones are the idiots who keep blathering for NO GUNS ALLOWED signs and ignore the fact that those signs invite the killers into...whee? The schools, the churches, the theatres, the restraunst. What do all those things have in common? They are no gun zones. Mentalities like yours got people killed. You dont want to own a gun? Fine and dandy by me, but it is not your place to judge us by another's actions, nor is it your right to decide what we cannot own. Do you also stand for the seizing of cars owned by people convicted of drunk driving? No, of course not! That might take your little car out of your yard, that's of course........different! I dont know if you drink alcahol and drive, but if you do, you are no better than they are and you should surrender your car and your license, but ah, you are a law abiding citizen, right?????? So am I and my gun has never harmed anyone! Your little signs have gotten countless people killed. By the time you ever wake up, and I doubt you will, it will be too late. Maybe you might face an armed criminal one day and learn first hand. I doubt it. You will remain ignorant.
Better stock up on ammo now before all the peace loving liberals buy it all up.
I heard this guy was a gay activist. Time will tell. Looks like this administrations plan of "divide then Conquer" is well on its way.
I'm CERTAIN you're right John. During the Chick Fil A foasco, they SPECIFICALLY NAMED THAT ORGANIZATION AS A HATE GROUP.
See homosexuals VIEW ANYONE that won;t go along with their AGENDA as HATERS. The Souther Poverty Law Center ALSO classified them as a HATE GROUP. They are AN ULTRA LIBERAL ORGANIZATION that promotes the FRINGE like homosexuals, transsexuals, any DEVIANT BEHAVIOR.
Actually the Southern Poverty Law Center determined several years ago that the FRC is a hate group.
for those conservatives that support gun rights, is it about time to take its own medicine? All guns in recent news were legally purchased/owned not stolen.
I dont know Any gay rights activist conservatives. This is a gay rights activist liberal/progressive that pulled the trigger.
We have a right to own guns for protection/hunting. We do not have the right to shoot people when we disagree with their political views. This shooting was not a legal act.
Johnny, if you have never heard of the Log Cabin Republicans, then you are not informed enough to make such generalizations.
Log Cabin Repubs know obama has failed too
But the point is the gun was bought legally, and project that to the NRA wants multi-guns in everyone's arsenal. Crazies, mental incompetents don't matter, the NRA says they got a 2nd amendment right. Bet this, it isn't going to get better as more and more guns reach the street.
Log Cabin Rs are a gay conservative group. The left would like to hide them from public view since they think they own all gays.
No, Nicole, I just brought them up, because a conservative was trying to claim that all gays were liberal. Heed the beam in your own eye.
...@Czar: And, all the shooters have been LIBERALS.
Not debating that...just giving info.
This NUT is probably an AIDS activist. A HOMOSEXUAL TIME BOMB
Johntho -
Great hoot! "But the point is the gun was bought legally", where did you get that? I've been following the story all afternoon - haven't seen anything reported on what kind of gun or purchase status.
Keep the chuckles coming.