The Islamic State on Tuesday allegedly claimed responsibility for the shooting outside a Muhammed cartoon contest near Dallas through its official radio station, Agence France-Press reported.
“Two of the soldiers of the caliphate executed an attack on an art exhibit in Garland, Texas, and this exhibit was portraying negative pictures of the Prophet Mohammed,” ISIL claimed, according to AFP.
Two gunmen were killed on Sunday after they opened fire outside a cartoon contest held by an anti-Islam group, the American Freedom Defense Initiative.
According to news reports, law enforcement officials have identified Elton Simpson and Nadir Soofi as the two suspects in the attack. The two lived together in Phoenix. Simpson had been previously identified by the FBI as a terror suspect. According to his lawyer for a 2010 case, Simpson may have been on the FBI’s no-fly list, but “seemed pretty normal.”
