A 37-year-old woman fired several gunshots, apparently at the ceiling, inside of Dallas' Love Field Airport on Monday before an officer shot and wounded her, authorities said.
The woman was dropped off at the airport at about 11 a.m., walked inside near the ticketing counters and entered a bathroom, Dallas police Chief Eddie Garcia said at a news conference. She emerged wearing a hooded sweatshirt or some other clothing that she hadn't arrived in, pulled a gun and fired several shots, apparently at the ceiling, he said.An officer nearby shot the woman in her "lower extremities," wounding her and enabling her to be taken into custody, Garcia said.
"I heard about 10 more shots while I was running away," said Warner, who couldn't discern what the argument was about. Love Field, which is one of the Dallas-Fort Worth area's two major airports, suspended airport operations after the shooting but said at around 3:45 p.m. that they had resumed. The Federal Aviation Administration held up flights for a couple of hours while police investigated, but flights were cleared to resume around mid-afternoon.
A spokesman for Southwest Airlines, which uses Love Field as a hub, said the airline cancelled most of its flights that were scheduled to depart or arrive at Love Field before 6 p.m. CDT. Southwest cancelled 85 flights at Love Field on Monday, according to the flight tracking website FlightAware.
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