DEVELOPING: Police have surrounded Terminal 3 at Los Angeles
International Airport Friday after an unknown incident prompted an evacuation
of Terminal 3.
Details surrounding the incident were not immediately clear,
but passengers reported being evacuated from the terminal sometime after 9 a.m.
There were eyewitness reports of a shooting, but those reports were not
immediately confirmed by Fox News. One witness said a person with a gun opened
fire after getting through a security checkpoint.
Witness Brian Keech said he heard "about a dozen
gunshots" from inside the security gate at Terminal 3.
The Los Angeles Times reports that one TSA agent was shot
and the suspect was wounded.
Fire officials said they are responding to assist multiple
patients with injuries and the city was placed on a tactical alert. First
responders are at the scene, and a TSA agent was receiving treatment.
Bill Reiter, a writer for FoxSports.com, was at the scene
and sent out a tweet: "When gunfire broke out there was a stampede people,
all of us hiding under seats we didn't fit under, we burst through the door to
outside."
Tory Belleci from the TV show "Mythbusters"
tweeted: "Heard gun shots then everyone starting running for the door. Not
sure if anyone was hurt."
The airlines that use the terminal are Allegiant Air,
Frontier, JetBlue, Spirit, Virgin America and Virgin Australia.
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