Transcript for Police Shoot Man With Machete at New Orleans Airport
newsment we start with the breaking news, a bizarre and violent attack at the airport in New Orleans. Chaos as hey man stormed a tsa checkpoint wielding a machete and wasp spray. You can see the suspect in this picture right there on the ground with his machete right next to him. Seven people injured and kendis Gibson is at the airport for us this morning covering it all. Kendis. Reporter: Dan and Paula, you mentioned it. It was a scene of utter complete chaos. Take a look at this. That guy there in yellow that's where the first tsa agent was attacked. I spoke with an eyewitness to all of this. He describes a scene of complete and utter panic with people running all over the place, women and children screaming and crying. Overnight, chaos at a major airport. Seven people including a machete wielding man are injured this morning after an attacker stormed security officers at Louis Armstrong international airport in New Orleans. Some guy came through with a machete. Reporter: The suspect Richard whiter phiing travelers as he allegedly bombard two agents with toxic wasp spray rushing through. He comes running with a machete swinging it and I start swinging my suitcase at him and he runs the other way right into a tsa agent. Reporter: The suspect was stopped by two more agents before he began swinging at them with the 14-inch long blade. The male tsa officer grabbed a piece of luggage in order to defend himself. Reporter: Sheriff's deputies stationed at the airport opened fire shooting white three times to stop the rampage. All of a sudden I hear gunshots. Reporter: Travelers scrambling for cover in concourse B that serves southwest airlines. We all got down on the floor and they hustled everyone in there. Reporter: Three airline passengers among those injured in the fray. One traveler and a tsa agent suffering bullet wounds in the cross fire. All expected to survive. Officials say the attacker in serious condition when taken to the hospital for surgery overnight. Operations returning to Normal as you can see here at the airport. In fact, you can't really tell if there's increased security this morning. As for the suspect, he is identified as a person who lives just about a mile from this airport. The motive, not known this morning. Dan. A lot of people who know him say they are very surprised by what has happened. Kendis, thank you very much. For more let's bring in the former FBI agent and ABC news consultant brad Garrett. You used to be an FBI profiler. Do you have any theories about why this may have happened? Behavior initially, Dan, he doesn't hurt the two tsa agents. He sprays them with insect spray and runs through the metal detector. Again, has ample opportunity to stick a number of people including tsa agents, doesn't. Keeps going and eventually chases a tsa agent and a uniformed officer shoots him for obvious reasons, so could one motive be suicide by cop? I think they're going to have to look at that. And in your view from what we know now, how did security handle this? Well? I think fairly well, Dan, because tsa is not armed. That's why you have uniformed local officers at every concourse. And she did what she was trained to do. All right, brad Garrett, we appreciate your insight as always. That's the ABC news consultant brad Garrett. Paula, to you. Moving on to a shocking case of road rage in Houston.
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