Gunshots rang out at Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport on Christmas night and injured three people, police say. Another was stabbed. One of them was in critical condition.
Then there was a second incident involving guns, authorities said.
Police said officers responded to reports of shots fired around 9:45 p.m. at a restaurant in Terminal 4, outside a security checkpoint, and found a woman and two men suffering from gunshot wounds. All were hospitalized. The woman’s condition was considered life-threatening. The men were in stable condition.
The police then arrested a man and a young woman in a parking lot. He was taken to hospital with at least one stab wound and is in stable condition. There was initially no indication she was injured.
According to police, initial information indicates that the people involved all knew each other and that they were “engaged in a physical altercation which escalated” when one of them pulled out a gun. We didn’t know which one.
No one else at the airport was injured, police said. The security checkpoint was temporarily closed and Sky Train operations were suspended as a precaution, but, according to police, “the incident was resolved and operations returned to normal.”
Later, police said, a man received a text message about a possible active shooter at the airport, showed up with guns and got into “an altercation” with a police officer. He was arrested and incarcerated on several charges. Police say the two incidents are unrelated.
