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OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — A Southwest Airlines employee was fatally shot at Oklahoma City’s Will Rogers World Airport on Tuesday afternoon, prompting city officials to close the airport and order people inside a sprawling terminal to seek shelter.
Southwest canceled the rest of its flights scheduled to depart Tuesday from Oklahoma City.
Oklahoma City Police Capt. Paco Balderrama said Michael Winchester, 52, was working when he was shot. Police have not determined a motive for the shooting.
Video from a television station helicopter showed what appeared to be a pool of blood near the bottom of a ramp leading from the airport’s departure area. Two ambulances and a firetruck stood by.
Balderrama said police did not believe there was an active shooter and that officers were working to fully secure the airport.
With the airport closed, maps posted at the FlightAware website showed that one flight was diverted to the Wiley Post Airport in the northwestern part of the city while two commercial flights from Chicago’s O’Hare Airport were directed to Tulsa, about 100 miles away.
Southwest, American, Delta, United and Alaska airlines each have terminals at the airport, which handles about 7,000 to 8,000 passengers daily.
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