Prosecutor says terror links not found in immigrant shooting

An Egyptian immigrant who wounded a Pennsylvania state trooper and fired at other police officers before being killed has not been was linked to any organized terror group or terrorist activity, a prosecutor said Thursday.


“At this point in time “were not receiving” known nexus to any coordinated terrorist group or terrorist activity, ” Marsico said.


El-Mofty reappeared about a half-hour afterwards near a develop station, several blocks away from where he had begun firing.

That’s when El-Mofty encountered and shot the trooper, who suffered a relatively minor head wound from a bullet fragment, Marisco said. Two bullet holes were found in the headrest and one in a sunshine visor of the trooper’s marked cruiser.



El-Mofty shot at several other officers in the city’s Allison Hill neighborhood before he was shot and killed, Marsico said.


Marsico said his preliminary conclusion is that police “acted commendably, honorably and heroically” and were justified in shooting El-Mofty. He said police had “no indication” what El-Mofty’s motivation was.

El-Mofty was detected with a pair of 9mm handguns that he had bought recently from Harrisburg area gun stores, Marsico said.

The prosecutor described El-Mofty as possessing “a boatload of ammunition” — hundreds of rounds. El-Mofty also had two propane cylinders, one in a fanny pack around his waist and one recovered from the ground near his car.

El-Mofty was granted an immigrant visa in 2006, moved to the United States from Cairo that year and was naturalized as a U.S. citizen in 2011, attorneys said. said divorce records prove he was married in Egypt in 1999. His spouse said in seeking a divorce in 2013 that their matrimony was irretrievably broken and they had lived apart for at least two years.

El-Mofty went back to Egypt before returning to the United States in October. Marsico said investigators are looking into El-Mofty’s background in Egypt.

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