Imran Ali Rasheed was identified as the Texas man who fired a gun at a police employee in the Plano Police Department’s lobby after murdering a Lyft driver, Isabella Lewis. Authorities now say they are investigating whether the shootings were terrorism-related.
Rasheed, 33, of Garland, Texas, was shot and killed in the lobby by police who responded to his gunfire, Plano police say. The Plano Police Department is “the largest law enforcement agency in the northern Dallas metropolitan area,” they noted.
Authorities found a note in the Lyft driver’s car which led police to contact the FBI, Garland, Texas, Police Chief Jeff Bryan said in a news conference. However, he did not reveal the contents of that note. Rasheed “may have been inspired by foreign terrorism organizations to commit these crimes,” said Matthew J. DeSarno, the special agent in charge of the FBI’s Dallas office, in the news conference. DeSarno said he did not want to name the organization to give it attention, and he also wouldn’t release the contents of the note.
Here’s what you need to know:
1. The FBI’s Joint Terrorism Task Force Is Investigating
DeSarno, the special agent in charge of the FBI’s Dallas office, stressed in a news conference that it was early in the ivnestigation, but the FBI’s Joint Terrorism Task Force has joined the investigation to determine “what led to the incidents and whether they were an act of terrorism.”
“We do not believe the suspect was provided assistance by others or that...
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