Man arrives at airport after hearing about an active shooter, gets into altercation with Phoenix PD
PHOENIX - Not long after operations resumed at Sky Harbor Airport following a shooting and stabbing investigation, an arrest was made in Terminal 4 – but police say this is unrelated to the earlier incident.
"This man received a text message that he believed there was an active shooter at Sky Harbor, said Sgt. Mayra Reeson of the Phoenix Police Department.
He later arrived at the scene with guns and got into an altercation with an officer.
"He was told by a relative at the airport a shooting occurred earlier in the evening. The man, later identified as 21-year-old Cole Nenon, handed his firearms to other individuals at the airport before he approached an officer who was posted just outside the shooting scene. Nenon appeared irate and began yelling at the officer as he approached him. The officer gave Nenon commands to stop but he did not. The officer was able to take the man to the ground and placed him under arrest," police said in a release.
Police say Nenon struck and spat on an officer and he was booked on aggravated assault charges.
According to the report, three firearms were recovered and taken as evidence.
Investigators say the man was arrested and will be booked into jail.
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