Machete-wielding man shot at New Orleans airport

A machete-wielding man charged a security checkpoint and injured at least two people before police shot him at Louis Armstrong New Orleans International Airport on Friday evening.
 
{mosads}According to WVUE New Orleans, a man identified as 63-year-old taxi driver Richard White sprayed wasp spray at a TSA agent, then produced a machete and cut another agent. A police officer shot him shortly after. White is hospitalized and unresponsive.
 
The confrontation began after White tried to bypass a Southwest Airlines checkpoint and was stopped by security.
 
One bystander received a graze wound, and some others sustained injuries trying to get away from the incident, WVUE said.
  
“There was a security incident near concourse B of the airport,” the airport’s Twitter account said. “The site has been secured[.] We will release more info as it comes available.”
  
The FBI and local law enforcement are both responding to the scene, ABC reported
 
-Updated at 11:21 p.m.

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