DALLAS -- It doesn't take much to disrupt an airport these days, with travel increasing and federal security screeners straining to keep up.
On Friday, a disturbance at Dallas Love Field spun out of control and ended with a police officer firing several shots at a man outside the terminal.
It was over in minutes, but the repercussions lasted hours.
When the shots rang out, some frightened travelers at the nearby security checkpoint rushed past screeners and toward the safety of the terminal. The Transportation Security Administration then ordered the terminal evacuated. Hundreds of passengers needed to be screened again, along with people showing up for afternoon flights, backing up the line at the checkpoint.
Departing flights were stopped for a time. At least eight inbound flights were diverted to other airports, according to the tracking service flightaware.com.
Mike Boyd, a consultant who advises airports, was sympathetic to the officer who fired the shots Friday.
"At an airport, if you see something crazy going on in this day and age, maybe it's better to overreact than underreact," he said.
The suspect -- Shawn Nicholas Diamond, 29, of Edgewood, Md. -- was hospitalized in stable condition Saturday, Senior Cpl. Monica Cordova with Dallas police said.
Police Chief David Brown said Friday that Diamond had rocks in his hands as he advanced toward the officer, who had his gun drawn, outside the terminal. Brown said Diamond was heard telling the officer, "You're going to have to shoot."
Diamond had been released on bond earlier Friday after spending the night in a county jail, police in the Dallas suburb of Carrollton said. He was arrested Thursday after causing $3,700 in damage to city-owned trees by reckless driving, Carrollton police spokesman Jolene DeVito said.
He traveled to the Dallas area earlier in the week. His ex-girlfriend was driving him to the airport Friday so he could return to Maryland.
During the drive, Brown said, Diamond hit the woman. After arriving at the airport terminal, he said, Diamond was pulling his luggage from the woman's car when he grabbed a traffic cone, smashed the car's windshield with it, then began picking up landscaping rocks nearby and hurling them through the car's windows.
Surveillance video shows an officer intervening and aiming his gun at Diamond as he starts to advance with the rocks.
In the video, Diamond darts around the officer, who shoots him.
Brown said the officer ordered Diamond to stay down. He said the officer fired several more shots when Diamond got up and began running.
The officer who shot Diamond has been removed from patrol duty pending an internal review of the shooting, Brown said.
Dallas police Sgt. Mike Beattie, who is stationed at Love Field, said airport police receive specific training to be attentive to suspicious-looking travelers and that the Dallas Police Department provides "crowded-environment training" to all its officers every two years. .
Love Field has one checkpoint used by all passengers at 20 gates. Nearby Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport has several checkpoints spread across five terminals.
By late Friday afternoon, nearly 100 flights at Love Field had been delayed. Beattie said it was the first shooting in the 89-year history of Love Field, located a few miles from downtown.
Information for this article was contributed by Juan A. Lozano, Diana Heidgerd, Jamie Stengle and Terry Wallace of The Associated Press.
A Section on 06/12/2016