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Before he was stopped by two gunshot wounds to the midsection, a suspect who breached a secure area at McCarran International Airport and got onto the tarmac early Thursday fractured an officer’s face, knocked a second officer to the ground and ran at the sergeant who shot him, according to Metro Police.
Jordan Henry, 32, was stabilized at University Medical Center but remained in critical condition two days after the shooting, said Clark County Assistant Sheriff Charles Hank in a briefing today.
Investigators were trying to determine what Henry, an Indianapolis resident who’d been in Las Vegas four days before the shooting, was doing at the airport Thursday. He’d missed a flight the previous day and didn’t have a ticket for another one, Hank said.
Metro also is searching for a second person who had accompanied him to the airport but was not present during the breach, Hank said.
The incident began about 3:15 a.m. in Terminal 3, where Henry triggered alarms when he went behind a ticket counter into a secured employee area. When officers located Henry, he was at a baggage handling area on the tarmac near Terminal 1.