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Dallas Love Field Shooting Cop Earns A Donut For Doing A Good Job
A woman who fired several rounds near the ticketing counter inside Dallas Love Field Airport late Monday morning was yelling about her marriage and threatened to blow up the airport in the moments before she was confronted and shot by a Dallas police officer, police say.
Dallas Chief of Police Eddie Garcia said the woman, identified by police Monday afternoon as 37-year-old Portia Odufuwa, was dropped off at the airport just before 11 a.m. by an Uber driver.
Showing surveillance video from the airport during a news conference Tuesday, the chief said the woman entered the airport and went to a restroom before exiting several minutes later with a dark-colored hoody pulled tightly over her head and with her hands in her pockets.
Garcia noted the woman's behavior near the kiosks drew the attention of a nearby uniformed Dallas police officer, identified as Officer Ronald Cronin, who was walking toward her when she stopped and said she had an announcement. The woman, according to witnesses, began talking about her marriage, incarceration and made threats to blow up the airport.=
“You have to shoot and stop the threat. Him moving and looking for cover, that’s just where the round went,” Garcia said. “If you look at what that officer had to do with, quite frankly, shooting over some people, trying to get a line of sight, kind of trying to find the perfect angle to get a shot at her as quickly as possible.”
No other injuries were reported and Garcia added he was proud of the quick response from all of the officers working inside Love Field, including the 15-year veteran who took down the armed woman.
During the investigation, according to an arrest warrant affidavit obtained by NBC 5 Tuesday morning, police said they found a round in a kiosk near where the officer took cover that they said came from the woman's gun, indicating she fired at least once in the officer's direction.
Garcia said the woman's gun was capable of holding 16 rounds. They found five rounds rem..
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