New video shows how officer halted active shooter at San Antonio Airport

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On Thursday, the San Antonio Police Department released surveillance video from the April 15 incident at the San Antonio Airport involving an active shooter and a Parks Police officer.

The suspect, identified as 46-year-old Joe Gomez, was shot by San Antonio Park Police officer John Maines. The shots fired by Officer Maines were nonlethal. Gomez shot and killed himself after Officer Maines shot at Gomez during the shooting. Maines is an 11-year veteran with the police force.

'NOTHING SHORT OF A MIRACLE'

According to the newly released video, at approximately 2:30 pm the suspect, Gomez, is seen driving against traffic on the lower level of the San Antonio Airport’s pick up and drop off area.

Officer Maines was working in the A terminal in the lower level, arrival area that day and noticed Gomez driving towards him. Gomez parked his vehicle in the B terminal, is seen exiting his vehicle, and immediately opens fire towards the airport and the vehicles in the vicinity.

SAPD Chief William McManus described the video to KENS 5 ahead of it's release.

According to McManus, Officer Maines "puts his hands up and all of a sudden the car stops, the guy gets out, gets into a shooting stance and starts cracking off crack off rounds in all directions."

Pedestrians, seen in the video, immediately begin to duck behind pillars in the terminal. Several vehicles speed off as Gomez continues to fire his weapon, a handgun, reloads and immediately fires his weapon again. Officer Maines is seen in the video running towards Gomez and ducks behind a pillar.

Officer Maines fires at Gomez, striking him. Gomez then ducks into his vehicle, immediately exits, and then kneels on the ground and shoots himself in the head. The Bexar County Medical Examiner’s Officer later identified Gomez’s fatal injury as self-inflicted.

Officer Maines then runs towards Gomez – who is lying on the ground after shooting himself – and puts his weapon away.

Aside from someone sustaining a sprained ankle, authorities said no one else was injured in the incident, which prompted a temporary lockdown of the airport as police investigated.

“The officer who stopped this saved a lot of lives,” McManus said in the hours following the incident. “This guy had a full box of ammunition, he had a .45-caliber handgun he was shooting at the direction of the terminal, at the police officer, and behind him. We were very lucky not to have a lot of people injured or killed.”

McManus echoed those sentiments Thursday ahead of the video's release, saying he couldn't "overemphasize the significance of what [Officer Maines] did and stopping that shooter."

"It's nothing short of a miracle that nobody was hurt. I mean, it was divine intervention, if you ask me," McManus said.

Police believe Gomez was the same individual who allegedly fired several shots from the Highway 281/Loop 1604 overpass earlier in the day; the chief said he matched the description, and the shell casings at both scenes are identical.

“SOMEONE YELLED, 'ACTIVE SHOOTER.'”

According to SAPD, several 911 calls were made during the shooting. Audio from one of those calls was released along with the surveillance video. In it, an unidentified woman tells the responding dispatcher, “There’s a shooting at the airport. They’re at the airport. There’s someone shooting.”

Witnesses KENS 5 spoke to on the day of the shooting said that people began running past TSA checkpoints yelling “Shooter! Shooter!”

"It kind of looked like they were late for a flight," said Curtis Rogers, flying home to Kentucky. "Then someone yelled, 'Active shooter.' We saw people running left, and we went left."

Lee Ann Yarbor flew to San Antonio from San Diego. She says a restaurant worker pulled her, her husband, and her service dog behind the shop's counter to duck and hide.

"I was just hoping to God that I wasn't going to get shot," she said. "We didn't know if there were dead people down there or what was happening."

Yarbor says she wasn't sure who'd been shot or what exactly happened until more than an hour after the shooting stopped.

Doug Rosini, flying out on business, detailed his experience to reporters shortly after he left the building.

"I saw this, heard of people running and heard somebody yell, 'Shooter, run!,' and when somebody yells, 'Shooter, run,' you run," he said. "The only thing running through my mind was getting back to my family—the thought of that not happening."

Just had to evacuate from San Antonio airport bc of an active shooter inside. Heart is still racing, but glad to be safe for the moment.