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Eight people injured in church shooting in Tennessee, authorities say One dead and seven injured in church shooting in Tennessee – police
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Authorities in Tennessee said eight people were injured in a shooting at a church in the Nashville area. A masked gunman entered a church in Tennessee on Sunday and opened fire, killing at least one person and injuring seven others before apparently shooting himself, an official said.
Nashville fire department spokesman Joseph Pleasant told the Tennessean newspaper that the wounded were being transported to Vanderbilt Medical Center. The nature of the injuries weren’t immediately known. Don Aaron, spokesman for the Metro Nashville police department, said the gunman arrived at the parking lot as services were ending at the Burnette Chapel Church of Christ in the Antioch neighborhood.
A dispatcher quoted by the newspaper said that the scene was still “active” at the Burnette Chapel Church of Christ as of 11.40am on Sunday. Multiple ambulances were seen at the church. The suspect fatally shot a woman who was walking to her vehicle, then entered the rear of the church and six people were shot. Aaron said a churchgoer who confronted the gunman was pistol-whipped by the suspect, who then shot himself.
On Twitter, Nashville fire officials described it as a “mass casualty situation”. They said eight people, nearly all of them adults over age 60, were being treated for gunshot wounds and the area around the church remained shut down. The gunman and five others were treated for gunshot wounds at Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Aaron said. One gunshot victim and the man who was struck with the pistol were taken to Skyline Medical Center.
A Nashville police spokesman did not immediately answer a telephone call or respond to an email on the shooting. Aaron said the condition of the suspect, in his 20s and from Rutherford County, was not believed to be life-threatening. He was under police guard. His name was not immediately released.
Aaron said he was “not aware” of any relationship between the alleged gunman and any of the worshippers inside the church. Congregants who witnessed the shootings were being interviewed by investigators.
The small, yellow brick church describes itself on its website as a “friendly, Bible based group of folks who love the Lord and are interested in spreading His Word to those who are lost.”
Photos on the church’s Facebook page show a diverse congregation with people of various ages and ethnicities.