DALLAS – A police officer shot and wounded a man Friday outside baggage claim at a Dallas airport after the man attacked a woman believed to be the mother of his children and then threatened the officer with a large rock, police said.
“There doesn’t appear to be any other weapon present than the rock,” Dallas Police Assistant Chief Randall Blakenbaker said.
Video posted by Instagram user @flashyfilms – and credited to Bryan Armstrong – shows people scattering on the sidewalk outside the baggage claim door at Dallas Love Field. An officer in a yellow vest is seen pointing his gun, and at least nine gunshots can be heard. A man repeatedly yells “stand down!” and a woman is heard screaming.
Some airport operations were temporarily disrupted, but the airport remained open.
The man, who was not identified, was taken to a hospital. Torres said he was not critically wounded.
PALM SPRINGS, Calif. – A moderate earthquake struck early Friday in desert wilderness nearly 30 miles south of Palm Springs and was felt across much of Southern California, waking people up but reportedly causing no significant damage.
The magnitude-5.2 temblor struck just after 1 a.m. and touched off dozens of smaller aftershocks, including a magnitude-3.8 less than a minute later, according to the U.S. Geological Survey.
People in San Diego and Los Angeles, about 100 miles to the west, posted on Facebook and other social media that they felt the shaking.
Much of the region includes the rugged expanse of Anza-Borrego Desert State Park, which sprawls over more than 900 square miles.
DETROIT – A federal safety agency that investigates airplane failures, commercial truck mishaps and train derailments is taking a look at a Michigan road crash that killed five bicyclists to determine if lessons can be learned to prevent a similar tragedy.
Eric Weiss, spokesman for the National Transportation Safety Board, said it has been decades since the agency has “looked at bicycles and cars and safety.”
An NTSB team arrived in the Kalamazoo area Thursday and will likely spend a week conducting interviews and studying the crash site, bikes and the pickup truck that hit the group, investigator Pete Kotowski said Friday.
Five people were killed and four were injured Tuesday when a pickup struck a large group of bicyclists from behind on a two-lane road in Kalamazoo County’s Cooper Township.
Associated Press
