Updated: January 7, 2015, 3:30 PM
A police officer shot and killed a man on Wednesday during a confrontation outside the at Port Columbus International Airport in Ohio, according to The Columbus Dispatch.
Neither the officer nor the man were immediately identified, the Dispatch reported, and it was unclear whether the man who was killed was armed.
Police responded to a disturbance at the entrance of the terminal at around 1 p.m., a spokesperson for the airport, David Whitaker, told the newspaper. A confrontation reportedly ensued and the man was shot.
Whitaker told the paper a vehicle was being searched by a fire department bomb squad and may have been involved in the incident.
He said they believed the incident was isolated and not related to terrorism.
Flights were “operating normally” with “departing passengers entering terminal on arrivals level,” according to a tweet from the Port Columbus Twitter account.
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