New Orleans airport shooting: Man with machete shot when he attacked TSA officer, sheriff says

[TexasTowelie]

Last edited Fri Mar 20, 2015, 10:48 PM - Edit history (1)

Source: New Orleans Times-Picayune

Updated: A man with a machete was shot after he attacked a security officer at Louis Armstrong International Airport Friday evening, Jefferson Parish Sheriff Newell Normand said.

The man walked down a TSA security line into Concourse B and was challenged by an officer who was checking for his boarding pass, Normand said. The man then pulled out a can of wasp spray and sprayed the officer, he said.

He ran past two other officers and pulled out a machete, cutting a female TSA officer in the arm, Normand said.

A sheriff's officer opened fire, striking the man in the left chest area, the left facial area and the left thigh, Normand said The man was taken to the hospital, where he was described by Normand as unresponsive.

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There has been a shooting at Louis Armstrong International Airport, the Jefferson Parish Sheriff's Office reported Friday night.

At least one person has been shot, according to JPSO spokesman John Fortunato.

A "security incident" occurred near Concourse B and the area has been secured, airport officials confirmed on Twitter. It happened about 6:30 p.m.

An ambulance with a police escort was seen leaving the airport. The access road to the airport from Interstate 10 was closed but has been re-opened.

Read more: http://www.nola.com/crime/index.ssf/2015/03/shooting_reported_at_new_orlea.html

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Corrected title to indicate revised headline.

[Flora]

1. It was a stabbing at the airport,

the police did the shooting to stop the knife wielding man.

[Judi Lynn]

2. Officer Shoots Man After Rampage at Louisiana Airport

Officer Shoots Man After Rampage at Louisiana Airport
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A law enforcement officer shot a 63-year-old man inside a New Orleans-area airport Friday after the suspect allegedly went on a bizarre rampage and attacked TSA agents with wasp spray and a machete, Jefferson Parish Sheriff Newell Normand said.

Normand said Richard White approached a security checkpoint inside the Louis Armstrong International Airport in Kenner just before 8 p.m. local time, and when he was challenged by a TSA agent he pulled out a can of wasp spray and sprayed the agent in the face.

White allegedly sprayed another male TSA agent with wasp spray and then pulled out a machete and struck a female agent, and then raced through the checkpoint, Normand said. The agent who was sprayed grabbed a piece of luggage to defend himself against the machete.

A law enforcement officer stationed at the airport shot White three times, once in the chest, the face and the thigh, Normand said. He was taken to the hospital and was "unresponsive," Normand said. One bystander was grazed by one of the officer's bullets, he said.

More:
http://www.nbcnews.com/news/crime-courts/officer-shoots-man-after-rampage-louisiana-airport-n327691

[TexasTowelie]

3. Thanks.

I updated the story with the revised information.

[KeepItReal]

4. Sounds like an appropriate response by the Officer

The TSA staff are unarmed at MSY and the Jefferson Parish Sheriff provides armed security at the checkpoints and facilities.

[Bosonic]

5. New Orleans airport attacker was mentally ill, had bombs

New Orleans airport attacker was mentally ill, had bombs

(Reuters) - The machete-wielding man who attacked security agents at a New Orleans airport on Friday was carrying six homemade explosives and suffered from mental illness, officials said on Saturday.

Authorities said Richard White, 63, is hospitalized in critical condition after a sheriff's officer shot him three times during the airport attack. White's age was previously reported as 62.

"No one at this point in time has any notion of what triggered this behavior," Jefferson Parish Sheriff Newell Normand said at a news conference.

"He is alive. We very much want the opportunity to talk to him. We're not sure that is actually going to happen.

http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/03/21/us-usa-shooting-airport-idUSKBN0MH0P820150321

[Bosonic]

6. Police: Suspect shot at New Orleans airport has died

Police: Suspect shot at New Orleans airport has died

KENNER, La. (AP) — Police said the machete-wielding man shot at New Orleans' international airport last night has died.

The Jefferson Parish Sheriff's office said in a statement that 63-year-old Richard Write was pronounced dead Saturday afternoon at a local hospital.

Sheriff Newell Normand said White — who was shot three times by one of Normand's lieutenants Friday after approaching a security checkpoint, spraying insecticide and brandishing a machete — was also carrying a bag loaded with six Molotov cocktails: six Mason jars with cloth wicks soaked in gasoline.

Normand said White chased a TSA agent while swinging the machete. They were heading toward Lt. Heather Slyve of
the Jefferson Parish Sheriff's Office, who drew her weapon and fired three times.

http://bigstory.ap.org/article/658be412bf3243e39d35cb4f3aae528a/police-suspect-shot-new-orleans-airport-has-died

[Marrah_G]

7. We need to find a way to get people that disturbed, the help that they need

I don't know what the answer is, but what we are currently doing is not working

[KeepItReal]

8. "Bobby Jindal cuts mental health services."

January 2008 a pregnant police officer named Nicola Cotton was shot 15 times by a man with paranoid schizophrenia at a traffic stop. This incident drew attention to the lack of mental health services in our city. But how soon forgotten by Bobby Jindal who now is cutting Medicaid which includes the closing of one of our largest mental health hospitals. Southeast Louisiana Hospital is expected to close Oct 1 and 300 employees will be laid off. How can Nicola Cotton be forgotten so easily.

http://ireport.cnn.com/docs/DOC-818728

[Marrah_G]

9. Very sad!!!!!!!!!!!!!!