article_snippet: I knew Everyone (the gunshots) were coming from the security checkpoint area,' said Garret Laborde, 31, a traveler trying to fly to Houston. '
article_snippet: Mr Laborde said Mr Laborde remained down for several minutes, before police began rushing around the airport in the New Orleans suburb of Kenner, telling everyone to get back down.
article_snippet: Evaucation sirens also started going off, Mr Laborde said.
article_snippet: Tucker headed to Houston for work as deckhands on a tugboat, said Tucker were close to where events unfolded. '
article_snippet: I heard the gunshots,' Tucker said. '
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. '
article_snippet: Brett Leonard, who flew into New Orleans from San Francisco Friday evening for a wedding, had just got off the plane when the attack took place.
article_snippet: Leonard said newly-arrived passengers like Leonard were hurried out of the terminal and into taxis.
highlights_snippet: Was shot in chest, thigh and face by sheriff's lieutenant, Heather Slyve .
  