The five people involved were all familiar with each other, Reeson said. According to Reeson, their physical argument escalated when someone pulled out a gun and started shooting.
“I believe it was a family dispute that escalated,” Reeson said during a news conference. “We don’t believe there is any outstanding suspect out there. I want to calm everyone down.”
When officers arrived, they found three people with gunshot wounds and another person in a Terminal 4 parking garage with “at least one stab wound,” Reeson said.
Police arrested two people in connection with the shooting, an underage girl and the adult man with the stab wound. Her identity has not yet been revealed. A weapon was recovered, Reeson said.
No other community members or airport travelers were injured, Reeson said.
Airport operations have resumed and no flights were affected by the shooting investigation, Phoenix police posted on X.
As of Thursday afternoon, police had not provided any information about the names of those involved. It was not yet known whether they were from Arizona.
Shootings at Sky Harbor Airport are “extremely rare,” Phoenix police said in an emailed statement Thursday.
“The area in the terminal in front of the security checkpoints is public, so the same rules/laws apply as any public area,” said Sgt. Phil Krynsky with the Phoenix Police Department in response to the Arizona Republic’s question about firearms carrying laws on Airport.
Since late 2015, there have been at least three calls for service at the airport for someone with a gun and one for a stabbing, according to open data from the Phoenix Police Department. All four were reports prepared in either 2016 or 2017.
Republican reporter Rey Covarrubias Jr. contributed to this article.
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