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Suspect dead, one injured after gunman opened fire inside Tennessee movie theatre | Suspect dead, one injured after gunman opened fire inside Tennessee movie theatre |
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Nashville police fatally shot a suspect who attacked several people inside a local movie theatre on Wednesday afternoon. | Nashville police fatally shot a suspect who attacked several people inside a local movie theatre on Wednesday afternoon. |
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Police dispatchers responded to reports of an active shooter at 1:15pm at the Hickory 8 movie theatre in Antioch, located in southeastern Davidson County, Tennessee. | Police dispatchers responded to reports of an active shooter at 1:15pm at the Hickory 8 movie theatre in Antioch, located in southeastern Davidson County, Tennessee. |
The suspect, originally identified as a 51-year-old white male, walked into the theatre wearing a surgical mask carrying two backpacks, a hatchet and a firearm — later identified as an airsoft pistol. | |
Metro Nashville Police Department have confirmed that the suspect was shot dead by police. | |
Active shooter situation @ Hickory 8 Theater -- suspect dead | Active shooter situation @ Hickory 8 Theater -- suspect dead |
An officer entered the theatre where the film Mad Max: Fury Road was showing, and exchanged fire with the attacker. The officer then took cover and a swat team engaged the suspect before fatally shooting him. | |
Don Aaron, Nashville Police spokesman, said that the suspect's backpacks were being investigated by a bomb squad and were detonated. The packages were identified as hoax devices. | |
The suspect reportedly entered the movie theatre, dousing pepper spray onto the crowd with eight moviegoers and attacking one man with a hatchet. | |
Emergency personnel gather outside Carmike Hickory 8 movie theater following a shooting 5 August 2015. | Emergency personnel gather outside Carmike Hickory 8 movie theater following a shooting 5 August 2015. |
Officials later said that a 53-year-old woman and a 17-year-old girl were treated for pepper spray related injuries. A 58-year-old man was also treated for a hatchet wound. | |
Steven was one of 8 people in theater with suspect. He was the 58-year-old man injured on the arm and pepper spray. pic.twitter.com/WApQFOIRpO | Steven was one of 8 people in theater with suspect. He was the 58-year-old man injured on the arm and pepper spray. pic.twitter.com/WApQFOIRpO |
Steven, the 58-year-old, told reporters that he was "eternally grateful" for the police response to the attack and he had no idea why the man attacked people inside the theatre. | Steven, the 58-year-old, told reporters that he was "eternally grateful" for the police response to the attack and he had no idea why the man attacked people inside the theatre. |
“I would ask anyone to pray for [the suspect’s] family because he obviously has some mental problems or something else," he said. | “I would ask anyone to pray for [the suspect’s] family because he obviously has some mental problems or something else," he said. |
Metro PD later identified the shooter as 29-year-old Vincente Montano. | |
The suspect had previously been committed in 2004 and 2007 for psychiatric issues and was reported as a missing person just two days prior to the attack, NBC News reported. |