The event featured speakers including Geert Wilders, a polarizing Dutch politician and anti-Islamic campaigner who is on an al Qaeda hit list. The event in Garland, Texas, organized by American Freedom Defense Initiative (AFDI), was called “Muhammad Art Exhibit and Contest” and offered a $10,000 prize for the best artwork or cartoon depicting the Prophet. Police and FBI vehicles were parked outside but officials declined to comment. The two-story apartment building was cordoned off, and residents were evacuated early on Monday, a neighbor told Reuters. It was not immediately clear whether the two men lived in the same apartment. Phoenix's KPHO TV reported an unidentified second man lived in the same complex as Simpson, the Autumn Ridge Apartments. FBI agents and a bomb squad were searching Simpson's Phoenix home, ABC said. Four others were also killed at a kosher market in the city.Ĭiting a senior Federal Bureau of Investigation official, ABC News identified one of the gunmen as Elton Simpson, an Arizona man who was the target of a terror investigation. In January, gunmen killed 12 people in the Paris offices of French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo in what it said was revenge for its cartoons. The incident in the Dallas suburb was an echo of past attacks or threats in other Western countries against art depicting the Prophet Mohammad (PBUH). “He did a good job,” referring to the police officer who shot the attackers dead with his duty pistol. “Obviously they were there to shoot people,” Garland, Texas police spokesman Joe Harn said at a news conference. No bombs were found in the attackers' car, police said. Police worked with the FBI to determine if the attack was a terrorist incident. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives were all in place on Sunday night in case of any incidents. Police in Garland, Texas, said they had planned security for months around the controversial exhibit and contest, and that a bomb squad, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, a SWAT team and the U.S. GARLAND: Police and FBI on Monday searched the Arizona apartment of one of two gunmen shot dead on Sunday after they allegedly opened fire with assault rifles outside a Texas exhibit of caricatures of the Prophet Mohammad (PBUH).
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