After 90 minutes of waiting, he realized that he was not being actively sought and drove back to his Reston apartment.[1] At the time, reports said police were looking for a white male in his twenties, and the shooting was not thought to be directly connected to the CIA.[9] He hid the rifle in a green plastic bag under a sofa, went to a McDonald's to eat, and booked into a Days Inn for the night. He learned from CNN news reports that police had misidentified his vehicle and did not have his license plate number.[3] The next morning, he took a flight to Quetta. 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]