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SWAT officers arrested a suspect connected to a Tempe shooting following an hours-long search that shut down Terminal 4 at Sky Harbor International Airport.
Flights out of Terminal 4 were grounded for about two hours as hundreds of officers, including SWAT teams armed with assault rifles, scoured the area for the man who believed to be hiding in a nearby parking garage, our sister station ABC15 reported.
About 6:45 p.m. Mountain Standard Time, after a search that lasted several hours, Phoenix police Sgt. Steve Martos said officers had found the suspect and arrested him. It wasn’t immediately known where the man was found, but a police photo showed the handcuffed suspect lying face-first on patrol car hood outside the airport.
A lockdown and ground-stop for flights into and out of Terminal 4 was lifted just after 6 p.m., but delays were still being reported for inbound and outbound flights, ABC15 reported.
The incident began on Thursday afternoon when a man was shot in the upper body for an unknown reason at a Tempe gas station, police said.
Three suspects fled the gas station in a vehicle, triggering a high-speed police pursuit that ended when the trio bailed from the vehicle at the airport.
Police said a man and a woman were taken into custody at the airport, but the third suspect remained at large. He is described as a shirtless black man with a skinny build and dreadlocks who was wearing brown pants and white running shoes.
A surveillance camera image released by police showed the shirtless suspect running near Terminal 4.
It is unclear if the fugitive suspect is armed, Martos said before he was arrested.
Photos from the airport showed SWAT officers with assault rifles in the terminal and armed officers searches cars on the roadway outside the terminal.
There was also a photo of stopped police vehicles with their doors open, parked behind two dark-colored SUVs that were stopped on an elevated roadway at the airport.
Agencies/Canadajournal
