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Several shots rang out at baggage claim Friday afternoon in officer-involved shooting at Dallas Love Field Airport. Passengers released tweets, photos and videos via social media to share their account of the chaos.
In the video above, you can hear approximately nine shots and see officers’ response around 12:20 p.m. with guns drawn. The airport was placed on lockdown and you can hear the officers yelling for someone to stay down.
The suspect was shot and has been taken to Parkland Memorial Hospital; condition unknown according to reports from DallasNews.com. Accounts do not show any officers as injured.
Mark Duebner, Dallas’ director of aviation, has referred all questions concerning the shooting to Dallas police. A news conference was expected to start about 1:30 p.m.
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Duebner tells the Dallas news site that around 1 p.m. that the entire airport had to be emptied, because some panicked passengers ran past the Transportation Security Administration checkpoint.
Earlier reports suggest that the incident began as a domestic dispute between a man and a woman. The man is believed to have been throwing large rocks at a car before the shooting occurred.
CNN reports the first-hand account from witness Bryan Armstrong who was at the scene:
