A shooting outside a terminal at the Ohio airport left one person dead on Wednesday afternoon following a "confrontation" between a man and Port Columbus International Airport police, according to an airport official.
An unidentified man was shot and killed after an officer opened fire outside Port Columbus International's departure area in Ohio's state capital, said David Whitaker, the airport's vice president of business development & communications.
The shooting occurred after a clash occurred between the suspect and the officers, according to Angie Tabor, communications manager for the airport. However, there had been no exchange of gunfire, Reuters reported.
Currently, it remains unclear on what led to the confrontation or if the suspect was armed. It's also not immediately known whether the man, who arrived alone in a vehicle, was an airline passenger or what his relation to the airport was.
"Through that confrontation, the person who was causing the confrontation was shot and killed by police officers," Whitaker said, adding that there had been no bomb threat prior to the incident, according to New York Daily News.
But according to multiple reports, the Columbus Police bomb squad was investigating the victim's car "to understand what it may or may not have had inside."
No one else was injured, he added.
Meanwhile, flights are continuing while the airport is currently exercising its highest security levels, Whitaker said.
"Flights are operating normally. Departing passengers are entering terminal on arrivals level," the airport tweeted at 1:29 p.m.
