The man who shot an unarmed security guard at the Family Research Council in the District pleaded guilty Wednesday and admitted to investigators that he planned to kill employees at the conservative organization and smother their faces with chicken sandwiches.
Floyd Lee Corkins II, 28, faces up to 70 years in prison for the August attack, when he entered the group’s office lobby with a loaded semiautomatic pistol and shot the security guard in the arm. With the plea, Corkins becomes the first person guilty of terrorism under the District’s 2002 Anti-Terrorism Act
Court document state that Corkins told investigators he wanted to kill employees of the conservative organization because, “I don’t like these people, and I don’t like what they stand for.In his statement to investigators, Corkins said he “had identified the Family Research Council as an anti-gay organization on the Southern Poverty Law Center website.”
