A Dramatic new video shows the moment a Texas police officer shot and wounded a woman accused of opening fire inside an airport in Dallas on Monday.
The video shows travelers at the Dallas Love Field airport ducking in horror as a single shot rings out followed by a woman’s agonizing screams, according to footage posted on Twitter by CBS 11 News Reporter J.D. Miles.
The officer is then seen in the clip with his gun drawn racing toward the area where the suspect was as other officers can be heard yelling to stay down and not to move.
According to Dallas police chief Eddie Garcia, the suspect, identified as 37-year-old Portia Odufuwa, emerged from a women’s restroom and allegedly fired her weapon multiple times toward the ceiling at about 11 a.m. Fortunately, no one was wounded or killed, Garcia said during a press conference.
Garcia said a cop swiftly responded and fired his weapon, hitting Odufuwa in the lower extremities. She was transported to a local hospital in stable condition.
CBS 11 reporter JD Miles shared a follow-up video in which officers are seen with the wounded suspect as paramedics arrived to take her away. A motive for the shooting has not been reported and charges against Odufuwa have been announced.
Another video obtained by CBS 11 News shows officers surrounding the woman, identified as Portia Odufuwa, before paramedics arrive and take her to the hospital pic.twitter.com/685EoftcHt
— J.D. Miles (@jdmiles11) July 25, 2022
After the shooting began, airline passengers were sent scrambling, with one female passenger, Kristen Smith, telling reporters she was waiting at a Southwest Airlines gate with her 10-year-old son when a “crowd started running towards them and telling them to run that there was an active shooter.
“At first, I just saw a teenage girl running and thought, ‘she’s just trying to catch a flight’ and then behind her, a whole crowd just running,” Smith said. “In the climate we are in now with all the shootings we had, people just reacted.”