In a prison interview, Kansi said the shooting was politically motivated: "I was real angry with the policy of the U.S. government in the Middle East, particularly toward the Palestinian people."

Kansi fled the country and was placed on the FBI Ten Most Wanted Fugitives list, sparking a four-year international law enforcement search.

He travelled on forged papers he had purchased in Karachi, Pakistan, altering his last name to "Kansi", and later bought a fake green card in Miami.

[2] He stayed with a Kashmiri friend, Zahed Mir,[3] in his Reston, Virginia, apartment, and invested in a courier firm for which he also worked as a driver.

"[2] At around 8 a.m. on January 25, 1993, Kansi stopped a borrowed brown Datsun station wagon[5] behind a number of vehicles waiting at a red traffic light on the eastbound side of Route 123, Fairfax County.

Kansi stated his motive in a prison interview with CNN affiliate WTTG Fox 5: "I was real angry with the policy of the U.S. government in the Middle East, particularly toward the Palestinian people.

"[10] An investigative task force (named "Langmur" for "Langley murders") was drawn together from both the FBI and local Fairfax County police.

[4] This information provided the first solid lead in the investigation when Kansi's roommate, Zahed Mir, reported him missing two days after the shootings.

[3] Kansi would later reveal that he had spent this time being sheltered by fellow Pashtun tribesmen, in the border regions of Afghanistan, making only brief visits to Pakistan.

Kansi stated "I want to make it clear (that) the people who tricked me... were Pushtuns, they were owners of land in the Leghari and Khosa clan areas in Dera Ghazi Khan, but I will never name them.

[12] At 4 AM on June 15, 1997, an armed team of FBI agents, working with the Pakistani ISI, raided Kansi's hotel room to arrest him.

During the trial, the defense introduced testimony from Dr. Richard Restak, a neurologist and also a neuropsychiatrist, that Kansi was missing tissue from his frontal lobes, a congenital defect that made it hard for him to judge the consequence of his actions.

[16][17] Kansi was executed by lethal injection on November 14, 2002, at Greensville Correctional Center near Jarratt, Virginia,[18] and his body was repatriated to Pakistan.

[3] The three people wounded in the attack were Calvin Morgan, 61, an engineer; Nicholas Starr, 60, a CIA analyst; and Stephen E. Williams, 48, an AT&T employee.

An inscription reads: In Remembrance of Ultimate Dedication to Mission Shown by Officers of the Central Intelligence Agency Whose Lives Have Been Taken or Forever Changed by Events at Home and Abroad.

[22] Bennett is interred in the Quivet Neck Cemetery, off Route 6A, East Dennis, Massachusetts, along with his brother and parents in a family plot.