On this day, 16 years ago, a Pakistani national shot five people, killing two, near the entrance of the CIA headquarters in Langley.
Mir Aimal Kasi was a courier living in Reston when he bought an AK-47 from a Chantilly gun store and hatched the idea to kill Americans. He was angry with U.S. involvement in the Middle East. He chose the CIA headquarters because he passed by the complex almost every day.
Three days after buying the assault rifle, Kasi stopped his brown station wagon behind a line of cars waiting at a red light on Route 123, got out and began shooting people in their vehicles as they waited to turn into Langley. Within seconds, he had killed Dr. Lansing H. Bennett, 66, and Frank Darling, 28.
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Kasi fled the country, sparking a four-year international manhunt. He was captured by FBI agents in Pakistan in 1997 and brought back to the United States to stand trial. He was executed by lethal injection in 2002.
