On December 7th, 2005, Rigoberto Alpizar was returning with his wife from South America where they had participated in missionary work with her uncle. As the two were boarding a connecting flight in Miami bound for Orlando, Alpizar became agitated, bolted up the aisle, and tried to flee the aircraft. Passengers said that his wife ran after him shouting, “My husband is sick, my husband is sick.” Others heard her pleading that he was bipolar and had not taken his medicine. After being confronted by plainclothes marshals, Alpizar fled the aircraft and was shot to death. A spokesman for the Federal Air Marshal Service, Dave Adams, claims Alpizar had “run up and down the aisle yelling, ‘I have a bomb in my bag,’” but no passengers interviewed has said that they hear him say anything.
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