So close...

Josh Voorhees has a Slate article about the LAX shooting:

Police are still piecing together exactly what happened during the fatal shooting at Los Angeles International Airport, although it appears as though they came painfully close to averting the shooting spree before it began. GOP Representative Michael McCaul, the chairman of the House Committee on Homeland Security, told CNN over the weekend that LAPD officers, responding to a tip from Paul Ciancia's concerned family, arrived at the 23-year-old's home less than an hour after he left for the airport:
By the time officers arrived at Ciancia's apartment, he had already left as little as 45 minutes earlier for the airport, according to McCaul: "This is how we typically stop these things, through good intelligence, and if family members or friends see a loved one who is exhibiting signs of mental illness, then I think it's incumbent on them to call this in to local authorities," McCaul said on CNN's State of the Union. "They actually did that in this case and, unfortunately, missed the suspect by a matter of minutes."
According to police in Ciancia's hometown of Pennsville, New Jersey, Ciancia had sent a series of text messages to his family saying he was unhappy and suggesting something bad might happen. One such text message left his father concerned enough to call local police, who then relayed the info to the LAPD and asked that they check in on Ciancia. They sent officers to his LA apartment but, by the time they arrived, Ciancia was already on his way to the airport, allegedly armed with an assault rifle.

Rico says an hour late or a day late, didn't matter...