A machete-wielding man charged a security checkpoint and injured at least two people before police shot him at Louis Armstrong New Orleans International Airport on Friday evening.

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According to WVUE New Orleans , a man identified as 63-year-old taxi driver Richard White sprayed wasp spray at a TSA agent, then produced a machete and cut another agent. A police officer shot him shortly after. White is hospitalized and unresponsive.

The confrontation began after White tried to bypass a Southwest Airlines checkpoint and was stopped by security.

One bystander received a graze wound, and some others sustained injuries trying to get away from the incident, WVUE said.

“There was a security incident near concourse B of the airport,” the airport’s Twitter account said . “The site has been secured[.] We will release more info as it comes available.”

The FBI and local law enforcement are both responding to the scene, ABC reported

At approximately 8:00 p.m. CT, a female supervisory #TSA officer at @NO_Airport was assaulted in the public area outside of Checkpoint B. — TSA (@TSA) March 21, 2015 The officer was taken to the hospital with non-life threatening injuries. — TSA (@TSA) March 21, 2015 -Updated at 11:21 p.m.