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The Latest: LA airport gunman sentenced to life in prison

FILE - In this Nov. 12, 2013 file photo, a Transportation Security Administration officer stands in front of a portrait of slain TSA officer Gerardo Hernandez during his public memorial at the Los Angeles Sports Arena. Paul Ciancia, the gunman who killed the federal security officer at Los Angeles International Airport and wounded three other people during a 2013 rampage, faces sentencing for murder and other crimes. Ciancia is expected to be sentenced Monday, Nov. 7, 2016, to life in prison for shootings that terrorized passengers and employees at the nation's second-busiest airport and disrupted air travel nationwide. (Al Seib/Los Angeles Times via AP, Pool, File)
FILE - In this Nov. 12, 2013 file photo, a Transportation Security Administration officer stands in front of a portrait of slain TSA officer Gerardo Hernandez during his public memorial at the Los Angeles Sports Arena. Paul Ciancia, the gunman who killed the federal security officer at Los Angeles International Airport and wounded three other people during a 2013 rampage, faces sentencing for murder and other crimes. Ciancia is expected to be sentenced Monday, Nov. 7, 2016, to life in prison for shootings that terrorized passengers and employees at the nation's second-busiest airport and disrupted air travel nationwide. (Al Seib/Los Angeles Times via AP, Pool, File)

By Associated Press 2 min read

LOS ANGELES (AP) – The Latest on the sentencing of a gunman who killed a federal transportation security officer and wounded three other people during a 2013 rampage at Los Angeles International Airport (all times local):

1:55 p.m.

A gunman who killed a federal transportation security officer at Los Angeles International Airport and wounded three other people during a 2013 rampage has been sentenced to life plus 60 years in prison for murder and other crimes.

Paul Ciancia was sentenced Monday in federal court for the shootings that terrorized passengers and employees at the nation’s second-busiest airport and disrupted air travel nationwide.

The unemployed motorcycle mechanic from New Jersey pleaded guilty to murdering Transportation Security Administration Officer Gerardo Hernandez and 10 other counts.