Officer shoots man who attacked TSA agents at New Orleans airport

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By Jonathan Kaminsky NEW ORLEANS (Reuters) - A law enforcement officer shot a man who attacked several Transportation Security Administration (TSA) agents while armed with a machete and wasp spray at a New Orleans airport on Friday night, officials said. Jefferson Parish Sheriff Newell Normand said the man, who he identified as 62-year-old Richard White, approached an agent at a boarding pass screening area in the Louis Armstrong New Orleans International Airport and sprayed the officer in the face around 8 p.m. local time (0100 GMT). The shots struck White in the chest, face and thigh and hit the fleeing TSA agent in the arm, the sheriff's office said in a statement. The TSA agent's injuries were not life-threatening, the statement said.

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