article_snippet: The machete-wielding maniac who was gunned down as he tried to hack a TSA worker to death has died in hospital.
article_snippet: Richard White, 63, charged at TSA employee Carol Richel at New Orleans airport at a security checkpoint inside city's Louis Armstrong International Airport
article_snippet: Lt Heather Slyve, of the Jefferson Parish sheriff's department, shot White in the chest, the thigh and the face as he lunged at TSA employee Carol Richel at New Orleans airport.
article_snippet: Saved: TSA employee Carol Richel, above, was inches from being slash by White.
article_snippet: However, Richel herself said that because TSA officials do not carry guns, Richel herself was forced to rely on police to save Richel herself life, saying: 'TSA officials're the ones there with the weapons to be able to protect us.'
article_snippet: Senseless act of violence': This statement was posted on the TSA's Twitter page on Saturday afternoon .
article_snippet: White then started swinging the weapon, which a male TSA agent managed to block with a piece of luggage as White ran through a metal detector, Sheriff Newell Normand said earlier on Saturday.
article_snippet: According to authorities, residue from smoke bombs was  found near White's body at the airport's security checkpoint.
article_snippet: White reportedly began swinging the weapon at Louis Armstrong International Airport's security checkpoint, which a male TSA agent managed to block with a piece of luggag.
article_snippet: The response was, Normand pulled a can of wasp spray and sprayed the TSA officer who was checking the boarding passes with the scanning machine to be scanned in the face. '
article_snippet: Describing the shooting, Normand said: 'the TSA officer who was checking the boarding passes with the scanning machine to be scanned proceeded down the exit line to come around, coming in very close contact to the individual with the machete, and the TSA officer who was checking the boarding passes with the scanning machine to be scanned fired three times, hitting the perpetrator once in the left chest, the left facial area and the left thigh, at that point in time.
highlights_snippet: Started chasing after TSA employee Carol Richel at New Orleans airport .
  
highlights_snippet: TSA employee Carol Richel at New Orleans airport was hit by bullet fired by Lt Slyve, but was treated in hospital .
  