First Passenger Killed by Air Marshal
Posted By: 'Okie' | 4:50 pm — 12/7/2005 | 
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It looks to have been a very tragic event — a man was shot and killed today by an air marshal on AA flight #924 from Medellin, Columbia to Miami, Fl.
An agitated passenger who claimed to have a bomb in his backpack was shot and killed by a federal air marshal Wednesday after he bolted frantically from a jetliner that was about to take off, officials said. No bomb was found. The man, identified as Rigoberto Alpizar, a 44-year-old U.S. citizen, was gunned down on a jetway just before the American Airlines plane was about to leave for Orlando.
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Mary Gardner, a passenger aboard the Orlando-bound flight, told WTVJ- TV in Miami that the man ran down the aisle from the rear of the plane. “He was frantic, his arms flailing in the air,” she said. She said a woman followed, shouting, “My husband! My husband!”Gardner said she heard the woman say her husband was bipolar _ a mental illness also known as manic-depression _ and had not had his medication.
Unless there’s more to this one, it’s a real shame, but the air marshal really didn’t have another option. If you’re bi-polar, you gotta take your meds! (db)
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