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Raw smartphone video captured the shooting. The video shows a security officer at the airport pointing his gun after gunshots can be heard firing at Dallas Love Field airport in Dallas, Texas. Bryan Armstrong/Flashyfilms via Instagram
A Southwest Airlines jet plane lands at Love Field in Dallas.(Photo: AP file photo)
A police officer opened fire Friday on a man armed with a rock who was assaulting a woman's car<span style="color: Red;">*</span>in an apparent domestic dispute at a curbside luggage area at<span style="color: Red;">*</span>Dallas Love Field airport, police said.
The man was hit at least once by gunfire and taken to the hospital still conscious.<span style="color: Red;">*</span>A<span style="color: Red;">*</span>
video<span style="color: Red;">*</span>of the incident shows the officer shouting at the man to "get down"<span style="color: Red;">*</span>and firing his weapon at least nine times.
Randall Blankenbaker, assistant Dallas chief of police, told reporters<span style="color: Red;">*</span>the officer came to the aid of a woman whose car was being smashed by the suspect wielding<span style="color: Red;">*</span>a rock.<span style="color: Red;">*</span>Blankenbaker described the suspect as the father of the woman's children.
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He said the officer, who was assigned to the airport, was "rushed by the gentleman with the rock."<span style="color: Red;">*</span>When the suspect refused<span style="color: Red;">*</span>orders to back off, the officer opened fire.
Ray Williams, who witnessed the attack, also<span style="color: Red;">*</span>
tells WFAA-TV<span style="color: Red;">*</span><span style="color: Red;">*</span>the<span style="color: Red;">*</span>man went after the officer<span style="color: Red;">*</span>with the rock after being asked to stop.<span style="color: Red;">*</span>At least one video of the incident captured the suspect shouting at the officer to<span style="color: Red;">*</span>"shoot me,<span style="color: Red;">*</span>shoot me!"
Blankenbaker said some passengers waiting to go through the security checkpoint were so startled by the gunfire that they rushed through the line. That prompted airport authorities to require all passengers be rescreened. He said the airport was not shut down during the incident.
Dallas Love Field, the smaller of the two major airports in the Dallas area, is located in the northwest portion of the city.
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