Richard White, Alleged New Orleans Airport Attacker, Dies In Hospital March 21 (Reuters) - The machete-wielding man who was shot by police when he attacked security agents at a New Orleans airport on Friday has died in hospital, police said on Saturday.
Richard White, 63, was carrying six homemade explosives when he attacked agents at the airport with wasp killer and a machete. He had a history of mental illness, officials said.
A spokesman for the Jefferson Parish Sheriff's Office said White was pronounced dead at 4:02 p.m. (2100 GMT)
"No one at this point in time has any notion of what triggered this behavior," Sheriff Newell Normand said at a news conference earlier on Saturday.
"His family has been very cooperative. We have been able to determine that there is a mental illness component here," Normand added.
White sprayed wasp killer on Transportation Security Administration agents at about 8 p.m. local time (0100 GMT, Saturday) at a security checkpoint at the Louis Armstrong New Orleans International Airport.
A TSA agent threw a bag at White and slowed him down. White then brandished a machete and chased an unarmed TSA agent, until he was shot by the sheriff's officer.
During the attack White dropped a bag containing a lighter and six glass jars with cloth wicks in gasoline, commonly known as a molotov cocktails, Normand said. (Reporting and writing by Fiona Ortiz in Chicago. Editing by Andre Grenon)
Richard White, 63, was carrying six homemade explosives when he attacked agents at the airport with wasp killer and a machete. He had a history of mental illness, officials said.
A spokesman for the Jefferson Parish Sheriff's Office said White was pronounced dead at 4:02 p.m. (2100 GMT)
"No one at this point in time has any notion of what triggered this behavior," Sheriff Newell Normand said at a news conference earlier on Saturday.
"His family has been very cooperative. We have been able to determine that there is a mental illness component here," Normand added.
White sprayed wasp killer on Transportation Security Administration agents at about 8 p.m. local time (0100 GMT, Saturday) at a security checkpoint at the Louis Armstrong New Orleans International Airport.
A TSA agent threw a bag at White and slowed him down. White then brandished a machete and chased an unarmed TSA agent, until he was shot by the sheriff's officer.
During the attack White dropped a bag containing a lighter and six glass jars with cloth wicks in gasoline, commonly known as a molotov cocktails, Normand said. (Reporting and writing by Fiona Ortiz in Chicago. Editing by Andre Grenon)
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