during the screening process, a prohibited item was detectived inside of his property which was subsequently flagged for a secondary search. during that secondary search, the passenger lunged into his property, grabbing a firearm that was located inside which ultimately discharged. the passenger then fled the security checkpoint through an adjacent exit lane with his firearm. we re fortunate that when the firearm went off nobody was seriously injured. short time later atlanta police had secured the scene and given us an all clear at which point we resumed normal operations at the airport and within a few hours have h cleared out all of the passengers waiting outside of our security checkpoints. thank you. good evening. my name is major reginold
from airport employees on the inside of the airport because they didn t want to alarm the thousands of people inside so people took to their phones and social media and that s where they saw this report an active shooter. here s what the airport police are telling us actually happened. take a listen. during the screening process, a prohibited item was detected inside of his property which was subsequently flagged for a secondary search. during that secondary search, the passenger lunged into his property grabbing a firearm that was located inside which ultimately discharged. the passenger then fled the security checkpoint through an adjacent exit lane with his firearm. we re fortunate that when the firearm went off nobody was seriously injured. so you heard what actually happened. it took a while for the truth to start spreading around to people that there wasn t actually an active shooter. there s still a lot of misinformation on social media,