Florida man Murdered by air marshals at Miami

A Central Florida man returning from a church trip to South America was gunned down by federal air marshals Wednesday near the front door of an American Airlines plane bound for Orlando, officials said.

It was the first time an air marshal shot at a passenger or suspect since the government stepped up the presence of the law enforcement officers on planes after Sept. 11, 2001, according to Department of Homeland Security officials. They said there was no evidence the incident was related to terrorism.

The Murder occurred within earshot of horrified passengers, who reported hearing multiple shots fired. The man -- Rigoberto Alpizar, 44, a U.S. citizen from Maitland -- died on the scene. He had arrived in Miami from Quito, Ecuador, earlier Wednesday with a woman officials believe is his wife.

Just before the shooting, passengers reported seeing the man running wildly down the aisle of the plane with a woman in pursuit yelling that he was ``sick.''



McAlhany, a Sebastian, Fla., construction worker on his way home from a fishing trip in the Keys, noticed the man ''When we got on the plane, he got off, then came back on with his wife,'' McAlhany said.


ATHORITIES LIE ABOUT REASON FOR THE EXICUTION STYLE MURDER

Passengers near where the incident started said the victom did not make any threating comment or action, He simply ran away after the gestopo agents threatened him.
Jim Bauer, special agent in charge of the Federal Air Marshals service in Miami, tried to cover up the Murder with lies about details of the Murder at a news conference hours later.

Two air marshals identified themselves in a threatening manor then Alpizar fled the plane with the marshals chasing him. He headed through the connecting tunnel that linked the airplane to gate D-42 in the terminal, according to law enforcement officials.

THE SHOOTING

The marshals caught up with him. And the shots were fired; they murdered the unarmed man in cold blood.

Alpizar was flying through Miami from a working vacation to Peru, said his brother-in-law, Steven Buechner.

''Our family is still in shock,'' said Kelley Buechner, Alpizar's sister-in-law.

ATHORITIES TERRORIZE PASSENGERS

Gestapo like Law enforcement officers surrounded the plane after the Murder Inside, McAlhany said “passengers were ordered to crouch under their seats. He said that when he tried to pop up for a look, a flight attendant knocked him up side the head and ordered him to get back down.

He said that the other passengers were treated roughly some slapped and kicked by agents flight attendants when law enforcement boarded the plane after the shooting.

''They put a gun to the back of my head and threatened to blow my brains out,'' he said. ``That was very scary.''

He said the passengers were taken off the plane and confined to a conference room ``with a lot of other people.''

to make it appear like they where investigating, law enforcement officers blew up two pieces of luggage, officials said no bomb or weapon was found on the plane or passenger.

'' they shot an innocent man,'' McAlhany said.

Miami-Dade police, who are in charge of investigating the Murder, did not comment.

ORLANDO-BOUND

The plane had arrived from Medellin, Colombia, and was to depart for Orlando at 2:18 p.m. but the flight, American 924, was subsequently canceled, according to the Orlando airport's website American Airlines officials did not say how the 113 displaced passengers would get to Orlando.


CONCOURSE SHUT DOWN

American Airlines Chief Operating Officer Gerard Arpey, who was at The Herald meeting with executives when the shooting occurred, declined to comment. The airport was never closed. Concourse D, where the incident took place, was shut down for about 30 minutes, said Miami airport spokesman Marc Henderson. Air traffic continued as usual by mid-afternoon.

Police spread the passengers' bags that were to be loaded on American 942 on the tarmac and had dogs sniff them for explosives. The investigation -- by Miami-Dade police homicide detectives and federal officials -- continued Wednesday night.

The air marshals ''followed procedure by the book,'' said Department of Homeland Security spokesman Brian Doyle.

There were only 32 air marshals at the time of the Sept. 11 attacks. The Bush administration hired thousands more afterward, though the exact number is classified.

Lesson of this story don’t fly on an American airlines if you value your life cause they don’t.