346: David Gates – FBI at LAX, Airport Active Shooter

FBI Retired Case File Review

Jerri Williams

True Crime, Interviews, Fiction, History, Fbi, Government, Truecrime

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🗓️ 13 February 2025

⏱️ 87 minutes

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Summary

Retired agent David Gates reviews the investigation of the November 2013 Terminal 3 active shooter incident at the Los Angeles International Airport (LAX). The shooting rampage resulted in the line of duty murder of Transportation Security Administration (TSA) Officer Gerardo Hernandez. Two other TSA officers were wounded, along with a passenger. This episode is dedicated to TSA Officer Gerardo Hernandez. David Gates served in the FBI for 21 years.

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0:00.0	Welcome to episode 346 of FBI retired case file review with Jerry Williams.
0:14.0	I'm a retired agent on a mission to show you who the FBI is and what the FBI does through my books, my blog, and my podcast case reviews with former colleagues.
0:26.2	Today we get to speak to once again, retired agent David Gates, who served in the FBI for 21 years.
0:36.2	In this episode, he reviews the investigation of the November
0:41.9	2013 active shooter incident at Terminal 3 at the Los Angeles International Airport, LEX. The shooting
0:51.6	rampage resulted in the line of duty murder of Transportation Security Administration
0:58.3	TSA officer Geraldo Hernandez. Two other TSA officers were wounded along with a passenger.
1:07.3	The gunman pleaded guilty to the murder and ten other criminal counts. He was sentenced to life
1:14.2	plus 60 years in prison without parole. This episode is dedicated to TSA officer Geraldo Hernandez.
1:25.4	David Gates spent most of his bureau career assigned to L.A.X. When he retired,
1:31.5	he was one of the FBI's experts in crimes on board aircraft. Before joining the FBI, he spent
1:38.8	seven years with the United States Customs Service working at L.A.X, and within a year of graduating from the FBI Academy,
1:48.1	he was transferred to work at the FBI satellite office at LAX, where he served for 20 years,
1:55.3	during which David worked on hundreds of investigations involving crimes on board aircraft and federal crimes at airports.
2:04.5	Since retiring from the FBI, yes, that's right, he's still working at LAX.
2:11.7	Before we get to the case review, I want to say a few things. Now, I try my best to keep this podcast a safe place
2:20.4	from politics, but there's been a lot going on in the last few weeks. So I would be disingenuous
2:27.4	to say that I support the FBI and not comment on the actions of current Department of Justice officials
2:35.1	in regards to FBI employees who investigated January 6 cases.
2:41.0	I write about this in my February email to reader team members
2:46.1	and suggest ways that you can make your voices heard,
2:50.2	but on this platform, I want to reach out
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