A man wielding a gun, a hatchet and pepper spray was killed inside a
Tennessee movie theater on Wednesday after police responding to reports
of an active shooter traded gunshots with the suspect, Nashville police
said.
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.