Shooting outside Port Columbus airport in Ohio leaves one dead after 'threat': official
A man was shot to death outside Port Columbus International's departure area around 1 p.m. after he engaged in some kind of ‘confrontation’ with police, an airport official said. It's not immediately known whether the man, who arrived with a vehicle, was an airline passenger or what his relation to the airport was. Flights are said to be operating normally.
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Published: Wednesday, January 7, 2015, 2:00 PM
Updated: Wednesday, January 7, 2015, 2:57 PM
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JODI ANDES/10TVA suspect was shot dead outside Port Columbus Airport's departure area, pictured, Wednesday afternoon.
A shooting outside an Ohio airport left one person dead following a "confrontation" between officers and a man, an airport official said.
An officer opened fire at the male suspect outside Port Columbus International's departure area at about 1 p.m., leaving the individual dead, David Whitaker, the airport's vice president of business development & communications told reporters.
"Through that confrontation, the person who was causing the confrontation was shot and killed by police officers," Whitaker said.
It's not immediately known whether the man, who arrived with a vehicle, was an airline passenger or what his relation to the airport was.
He's said to have arrived alone and then began to pose a "threat" or some kind. Prior to his arrival there were no threats to the airport which is currently exercising its highest security levels.
Whitaker declined to say whether the man was armed.
CBS 12The alleged suspect was shot dead in the airport departure area by cops, according to officials.
Columbus' bomb squad is now searching the man's vehicle "to understand what it may or may not have had inside," he said.
No one else was injured, he added.
"Flights are operating normally. Departing passengers are entering terminal on arrivals level," the airport tweeted at 1:29 p.m.
