One of the gunmen who staged an attack at an exhibit of caricatures of the Prophet Mohammad in a Dallas suburb has been identified as Elton Simpson, an Arizona man previously the target of a terror investigation, ABC News said citing a senior FBI official.
Bomb squad experts are searching for explosives in the car of two gunmen who were shot dead after opening fire on a security officer outside a contest for cartoon depictions of the Prophet Muhammad.
Spokesman Joe Harn with the Garland Police Department said the bomb squad was searching the vehicle outside the Curtis Culwell Center as a "precaution."
He added that the bodies of the two gunmen, who are yet to be identified, have not yet been removed from the scene.
"Because of the situation of what was going on today and the history of what we’ve been told has happened at other events like this, we are considering their car possibly contains a bomb.”
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