Pentagon stabbing suspect Austin William Lanz shot HIMSELF with cop’s weapon after ‘unprovoked’ fatal attack, FBI says
THE suspect in the fatal stabbing of a Pentagon police officer used the cop's own gun to shot himself after the "unprovoked attack," according to the FBI.
Austin William Lanz, 27, ambushed George Gonzalez, 30, a Pentagon Force Protection Agency (PFPA) officer, as he patrolled the Pentagon Transit Center on Tuesday morning.
Fellow Pentagon police pursued Lanz and reportedly confronted Lanz.
“Other PFPA officers engaged the subject, who ultimately died at the scene,” according to the FBI.
The deadly attack , already on edge since the Jan. 6 siege on the U.S. Capitol.
The Acworth, Georgia native is suspected of getting off a bus before he charged at Gonzalez with the blade.
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A pending case from April of this year had Lanz facing criminal trespass and burglary charges in Cobb County, Georgia.
He also racked up a separate set of charges on the same day, including two counts of aggravated battery on police, a count of making a terrorist threat, and a charge for rioting in a penal institution.
But a judge reduced Lanz’s bail amount to $30,000 a month later with conditions that he submit to a mental health evaluation and avoid any illegal drug use.
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Lanz had enlisted in the US Marine Corps in October 2012, but officials there confirmed he "was administratively separated less than a month later and never earned the title Marine.”