An officer at St. Louis' busiest airport fatally shot a man who wielded a knife early Friday morning outside the doors of a terminal, police said. No one else was injured.

The shooting at St. Louis Lambert International Airport happened around 1 a.m., St. Louis County Police spokesperson Vera Clay said. Clay said the man was in an area where he should not have been and refused to leave. CBS affiliate KMOV reported the officers were making routine checks at the time.

Clay said the man showed officers a knife when they tried to get him to move. Officers used Tasers but the man continued to advance toward the officers and one of them fired their gun, fatally wounding the man, Clay said.

The man was pronounced dead at the scene, KMOV said. He has not been publicly identified.

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