A person reportedly armed with a hatchet and a gun attacked a film theater in a Nashville suburb in the course of the displaying of ‘Mad Max: Fury Road’, pepper-spraying the viewers earlier than being gunned down by the police.
Nashville police stated {that a} SWAT crew responded to an energetic shooter state of affairs on Wednesday afternoon at the Carmike Hickory 8 theater within the 900 block of Bell Road in Antioch, Tennessee.
It is unclear whether or not the suspected shooter was killed by a police officer who helped evacuate the theater, or by the SWAT crew that responded to the emergency. His useless physique was discovered contained in the theater after the SWAT secured the constructing.
Three sufferers have been handled for pepper-spray publicity, whereas one had “superficial wounds” in all probability attributable to a hatchet, in accordance with Brian Haas, public affairs officer for the Nashville Fire Department. He described the accidents as “bruises” on the individual’s shoulder.
Police say the shooter had two backpacks. One was retrieved on his physique, whereas the opposite remains to be being inspected for doable threats.
The suspect wore a surgical masks, and reportedly pepper-sprayed the viewers at the theater, in accordance with police spokesman Don Aaron. The solely individual shot at the theater was the suspect himself, whom Aaron recognized as a 51-year-old native man, however didn’t launch his title.
The incident comes simply two weeks after a gunman killed two and injured 9 others in Lafayette, Louisiana.