Federal prosecutors have filed murder charges against the suspected gunman in the deadly shooting at Los Angeles International Airport.

U.S. Attorney Andre Birotte Jr. said Saturday that the murder charge applied to the death of TSA officer Gerardo Hernandez, who died in Friday’s shooting at LAX’s Terminal 3.

Authorities arrested 23-year-old Paul Ciancia in the attack, which also wounded five others, including two other TSA officers.

Ciancia was also charged with commission of violence at an international airport. He could face the death penalty.

The accused Los Angeles International Airport gunman approached a TSA checkpoint, pulled a “.223-caliber M&P-15 assault rifle out of his bag and filed multiple rounds at point-blank range” at a uniformed TSA officer on Friday, U.S. Attorney Andre Birotte Jr. said.

The suspect, Paul Anthony Ciancia, 23, went up an escalator, then came back down to “shoot the wounded officer again,” Birotte added. The TSA officer, Gerardo Hernandez, 39, died of his wounds.

Ciancia on Saturday was charged with murder of a federal officer and commission of violence in an international airport, both felonies, Birotte said.

(AP)