Nashville Police spokesman Don Aaron told
reporters that one moviegoer was cut on a shoulder by a hatchet before
police officers killed the 51-year-old suspect as he tried to go out the
back door.
The wounded man had a superficial injury to his arm, fire department spokesman Brian Haas said.
No
one has been transported to a hospital, Haas said, but three people --
including the man who suffered the cut from the hatchet -- suffered
irritation from pepper spray apparently used by the suspect, who was
wearing a surgical mask.
The suspect also had two backpacks with him, Aaron said. The bomb squad is going to destroy the bags, he said.
Police
were called to the Carmike Hickory 8 movie theater complex in the
Nashville suburb of Antioch at 1:15 p.m. CT. Two officers were already
at the mall working a car accident when people came running toward them.
The officers were inside the complex withing two minutes, Aaron said.
One
officer entered the theater and exchanged fire with the gunman before
backing away. The SWAT team arrived and had to don gas masks due to the
heavy chemical spray in the theater, Aaron said. The man tried to flee
out the back door.
A woman who worked at a Sprint store near
the scene told CNN's Brooke Baldwin that about three hours earlier, a
man with two backpacks tried to enter her store through their back door.
Source: CNN
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