Video has a good shot of the dead terrorists at ~2:00. CNN also is wrong when they say Elton Simpson’s tweet pledging allegiance to ISIS and talking about being mujihadeen was ‘hours’ before the attack, it was in fact twenty minutes before, and was followed immediately after the attack with running commentary by British ISIS member Junaid Hussain, as we reported last night.
(CNN)A day after police killed two gunmen who tried to ambush a Garland, Texas, event featuring controversial cartoons of the Muslim Prophet Mohammed, details began to emerge about the shooters.
One suspect, identified as Elton Simpson by a federal law enforcement source, linked himself to ISIS in a tweet posted just before the attack.
He also was no stranger to federal investigators. In 2011, he was convicted of making a false statement involving international and domestic terrorism.
The other suspect, identified as Nadir Soofi by two federal law enforcement officials, was Simpson’s roommate in a Phoenix apartment.
He wasn’t well-known to federal law enforcement and was not on the FBI’s radar, one of the officials said. Investigators were combing through evidence retrieved from the shooters’ Arizona home to help piece together a timeline of how their plot came together, the official said.
Simpson and Soofi never made it inside the Curtis Culwell Center in Garland, where in addition to the cartoon contest, a right-wing Dutch politician who’s on an al Qaeda hit list was speaking Sunday evening.
NEW: 2nd gunman in Garland ID'd as Nadir Soofi of Phoenix, roommate of other shooter @NBCDFW http://t.co/ZxnIzPLTVd pic.twitter.com/QYXGGdsYzP
— ScottGordonNBC5 (@ScottGordonNBC5) May 4, 2015
Update:
According to Heavy:
He’s a graduate of the University of Utah and the International School of Islamabad in Pakistan. His [Facebook] page also shows multiple posts featuring Palestinian and anti-police propaganda. Frequently, he posts the phrase “Eid Mubarak” meaning celebration to the blessed. Soofi was the owner of Effinity Solutions, a carpet cleaning business in Phoenix. In July 2013, he called himself a “newbie to the carpet cleaning industry.”
AZ Family reports that the two gunmen lived at an apartment on 19th Avenue and Thunderbird Road (above) in Phoenix. The day after the shooting, FBI agents, some clad in bomb squad gear, searched the apartment. The car they drove to the attack in Garland was registered in Arizona. The car, a 2008 Chevrolet Cobalt, was owned by Soofi. He tried to sell it back in March 2015 for nearly $9,000.
Police said prior Soofi’s name being released that the two had gone to the event with the intention of killing people. Both were armed with assault rifles. Garland cops stopped short of calling the attack a terrorist incident.
He was also pictured with a young boy who he variously identifies as his brother and his son.