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Police: Father of Chiefs long snapper shot, killed at Oklahoma City airport

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OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — The Latest on a shooting at Will Rogers World Airport in Oklahoma City (all times local):

The father of Chiefs long snapper James Winchester was shot and killed Tuesday in a premeditated attack at Oklahoma City’s Will Rogers World Airport. Michael Winchester was shot while walking between a terminal and the airport employee parking area.

 


The 52-year-old Winchester was a Southwest Airlines employee and a former University of Oklahoma football player. The unidentified suspect was later found dead in a pickup truck at a public parking garage overlooking the scene.

6:35 p.m.

Police say a suspect in the fatal shooting of a Southwest Airlines employee at Will Rogers World Airport in Oklahoma City has been found dead in a pickup truck in an airport parking garage.

Police Capt. Paco Balderrama says the suspect appears to have died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound. Fifty-two-year-old Michael Winchester was shot shortly before 1 p.m. Tuesday. Winchester died after being taken to a hospital.

Balderrama said the suspect was found with a gunshot wound to the head and has not been positively identified.

Balderrama said police believe the shooting was a premeditated attack.

4:15 p.m.

Oklahoma City police have identified the victim of a shooting at Will Rogers World Airport as 52-year-old Southwest Airlines employee Michael Winchester.

Winchester died following the shooting Tuesday afternoon at the airport on the city’s southwest side.

Police Capt. Paco Balderrama says Winchester was working at the time and police have not determined a motive for the shooting.

Balderrama says police do not believe there is an active shooter and officers are working to fully secure the airport, which has been shut down since the shooting with only a plane carrying prisoners to the Federal Transfer Center on airport property being allowed to land. No suspect has been found.

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3:50 p.m.

A Southwest Airlines employee has died after being shot at Will Rogers World Airport in Oklahoma City.

Southwest spokeswoman Brandy King confirmed the victim was an employee and says in a news release that the airline is cancelling all flights scheduled to depart Oklahoma City for the remainder of the day Tuesday.

The victim’s name has not been released. Police have said only that the man was shot early Tuesday afternoon.

The news release says Southwest is working to accommodate passengers at the airport affected by the cancellation of flights.

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3:35 p.m.

A man who was shot at Will Rogers World Airport in Oklahoma City has died.

Police officer Megan Morgan says the man died Tuesday afternoon after being shot earlier in the day.

The man’s name and other information was not released.

The airport was closed by police after the shooting and the only aircraft that has been allowed to land is a Federal Transfer Center aircraft carrying federal prisoners to a transfer center on airport property.

2 p.m.

Oklahoma City Police Capt. Paco Balderrama says police are searching for a possible second victim after a shooting at Oklahoma City’s main airport.

Balderrama says police have confirmed one victim in Tuesday afternoon’s shooting at the airport. He says police received reports of a possible second victim, but authorities have not yet found that person.

He says he does not know the condition of the confirmed victim.

Balderrama says all streets are blocked off and people should avoid the airport.

Police asked people to avoid the airport, which is in southwest Oklahoma City.

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