Thread: At least one person shot at New Orleans airport ( + 1 stabbed )

At least one person shot at New Orleans airport

BY JONATHAN KAMINSKY
NEW ORLEANS Fri Mar 20, 2015 10:15pm EDT

(Reuters) - At least one person was shot at a New Orleans airport on Friday night, the local sheriff's office told Reuters.
No further information was available about the victim at the Louis Armstrong New Orleans International Airport in Louisiana, said Colonel John Fortunato, spokesman for the Jefferson Parish Sheriff's Office.

The shooting happened about 8 p.m. CDT/9.00 p.m. ET in Concourse B, airport spokeswoman Michelle Wilcut told the Los Angeles Times.

http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/...0MH01S20150321

TV Breaking News said it started with at least one stabbing in the TSA line.

Man waving machete at New Orleans airport shot after stabbing airport official

By Agencies
2:29AM GMT 21 Mar 2015

A man wielding a machete entered Louis Armstrong New Orleans International Airport had been shot after reportedly stabbing a TSA officer.

No further information was available about the victim at the Louis Armstrong New Orleans International Airport in Louisiana, said Colonel John Fortunato, spokesman for the Jefferson Parish Sheriff's Office.

The shooting happened about 8 p.m. CDT/9.00 p.m. ET in Concourse B, airport spokeswoman Michelle Wilcut told the Los Angeles Times.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worl...-official.html

What I saw on live TV looked more like a butcher knife than a machete.

One person shot, two stabbed at New Orleans airport - police and eyewitness

BY JONATHAN KAMINSKY
NEW ORLEANS Sat Mar 21, 2015 8:56am IST

(Reuters) - One person was shot at a New Orleans airport on Friday night, the local sheriff's office said, while two people, at least one them a Transportation Security Administration agent, suffered what appeared to be non-life threatening stab wounds, an eyewitness told Reuters.

Four shots were fired around 8 p.m. in Concourse B of the airport, said Brent Long, a resident of Austin, Texas, who was there with his family while waiting for a connecting flight.

After seeking shelter inside an airport restaurant, Long emerged to see a man lying motionless on the ground in front of a security checkpoint. Two people, at least one of them a female TSA agent, were cut and bleeding, though the wounds did not appear to be life-threatening, he said.

Farah Stockman, a Boston Globe editorial writer, wrote on Twitter that she was at the airport when a man who "stabbed 2 people at security line" had been "shot by police," and that there was a dead body at the scene.

Colonel John Fortunato, spokesman for the Jefferson Parish Sheriff's Office, declined to provide further information about the incident.

An airport spokeswoman did not immediately respond to messages seeking comment.

http://in.reuters.com/article/2015/0...0MH02I20150321

. . . Green said they saw the machete and the suspect on the ground as they were leaving.
The knife was about 14 inches long, he said. . .