Gunfire rang out at Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport on Christmas night, wounding three people, according to police. Another was stabbed. One of them was in critical condition.
Then there was a second incident involving firearms, authorities said.
According to police, officers responded to reports of gunfire at a Terminal 4 restaurant outside a security checkpoint around 9:45 p.m. and found a woman and two men with gunshot wounds. All were hospitalized. The woman’s condition was described as life-threatening. The men’s condition was stable.
Officers then arrested a man and a young woman in a parking garage. He was taken to a hospital with at least one stab wound and was listed in stable condition. There were no initial indications that she was injured.
Police say initial information was that the people involved all knew each other and “were involved in a physical altercation that escalated” when someone pulled out a gun. It was not clear which one.
No one else at the airport was injured, police said. The security checkpoint was temporarily closed and Sky Train operations halted as a precaution, but police said: “The incident has been resolved and operations have returned to normal.”
Later, police said, a man received a text message about a possible active shooter at the airport, showed up with firearms and got into “an altercation” with an officer. He was detained and booked on several charges. Police say the two incidents were unrelated.
