Police capture suspect at Phoenix airport; terminal reopens
A portion of Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport was reopened Thursday evening after dozens of police officers shut a terminal to search for a man who had fled from the scene of a shooting in nearby Tempe earlier in the day.
Sgt. Steve Martos, a Phoenix Police Department spokesman, told the Los Angeles Times that a 25-year-old man was one of three suspects who raced toward the airport in a car after a shooting that left one man critically injured in Tempe about 3 p.m.
The man was captured near Terminal 4 of the airport, Martos said.
“We had complete cooperation with airport officials, and police from Phoenix and Tempe worked together,” Martos said Thursday evening. Arizona Department of Public Safety officials were also involved in the search.
Authorities did not say whether the suspect was armed at the time of arrest.
Dozens of flights from Terminal 4 had to been grounded as police searched for the suspect.
Two other suspects, identified only as a man and a woman, were captured near the airport, Martos said.
Times staff writer Kurtis Lee contributed to this report.
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