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The woman accused of opening fire at Dallas Love Field Airport Monday had a series of run-ins with police, including a misdemeanor case last year when she was ruled unfit to stand trial and ordered to get help for her mental health.
Portia Odufuwa, 37, was shot by a police officer around 11 a.m. local time after she fired into the airport ceiling near the Southwest Airlines ticket counter, according to the Dallas Police Department.
It’s unclear if she was aiming at anything specific, Chief Eddie Garcia said at a press conference Monday.
Odufuwa was hit in her “lower extremities” and hospitalized, officials said. Her condition is unclear and a spokesperson for the Dallas Police Department declined to comment when reached by the Daily News Tuesday.
No one else was wounded.
She has been charged with aggravated assault against a public servant, according to online jail records.
Woman opens fire at Dallas Love Field Airport and is shot by police
Before the airport shooting, Odufuwa had racked up a string of arrests for arson, robbery, criminal trespass and false reporting across North Texas, according to the Dallas Morning News.
In April 2021, she was accused of pulling the fire alarm at a Mesquite hotel after they refused to extend her stay. When police asked for her address, she allegedly gave that of Chris Brown’s mansion.
In October 2019, Odufuwa allegedly set a house on fire, but the Dallas County District Attorney’s office declined to press charges due to a lack of scientific evidence. After telling police she was “responsible for the fire,” she said she had set the blaze because “I am God’s prophet,” according to an arrest affidavit obtained by the Morning News.
She also allegedly told officers that she wouldn’t say anything else until she talked to Brown, who she identified as her husband.
