Suspect in Dallas airport shooting previously told police she was ‘God’s prophet,’ married to Chris Brown: report

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.

She is accused aggravated assault of a public servant because she fired one round toward a police officer, according to an arrest warrant.

She emerged from a restroom and said she had an announcement to make, Dallas police Chief Eddie Garcia said at a news conference Tuesday.

“Witnesses say Odufuwa started to ramble, talking about a marriage, incarceration and that she was going to blow up the airport and then pulls a handgun from her sweatshirt,” Garcia said.

She shot two bullets in the ceiling before Dallas Officer Ronald Cronin told her to drop the gun. She fired in his direction, according to the warrant, and Cronin fired back.

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..

Woman opens fire at Dallas Love Field Airport and is shot by police

Portia Odufuwa has had numerous prior arrests.

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 staffers 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 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.

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