Police Respond To Reported Shooting In Antioch

[NRaleighLiberal]

Source: Scripps media news channel 5

CREATED 1:48 PM - UPDATED: 2:09 PM
NASHVILLE, Tenn. - Police have responded to the scene of a reported active shooter in Antioch at a movie theater.

A heavy police presence was seen at 901 Bell Road, which is the address for the Carmike 8 movie theater, located near the Global Mall at the Crossings.

Officials with the Ford Ice Center have confirmed they are on lockdown as a result of the incident.

Witness video from the scene shows a heavy police presence at the movie theater.

According to Metro Schools, the Academy at Hickory Hollow was placed on lock down due to the situation, but they also confirmed no students were in the building.

Read more: http://www.scrippsmedia.com/newschannel5/news/Police-Respond-To-Reported-Shooting-In-Antioch-320794041.html

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more added - different source

[Newsjock]

1. Suspect reportedly dead

According to WSMV on-air, quoting police report.

[onehandle]

2. Has the NRA sent out their Emergency Support Team?

[drm604]

3. Was anyone else hurt?

Very sketchy info so far.

[MADem]

5. Someone was wounded by a hatchet. Police are making sure 2 backpacks the guy had aren't

booby traps.

Here is a press brief: http://www.wsmv.com/story/29717483/active-shooter-reported-at-antioch-theater

[EndElectoral]

4. When does this stop?

[NRaleighLiberal]

6. From CNN headline"

Now-dead suspect in shooting at Tennessee movie theater may have used hatchet to wound one person, Nashville police say. Suspect was killed during gun battle with SWAT team.

[rollin74]

7. suspect was reportedly armed with a gun and a hatchet

reports that one person may have been wounded by the hatchet

SWAT team killed suspect inside the theater

[brooklynite]

8. UPDATE: Police: Suspect in Antioch theater shooting dead

Metro police say a suspect who opened fire in a Antioch theater this afternoon also had a hatchet and may have injured one person with the hatchet.

Police said about 2:20 p.m. they were examining two backpacks, one on the suspect and one left in the theater, to make sure they are not dangerous. Police spokesman Don Aaron said officers entered the theater showing Mad Max through the projection room and engaged the suspect in gunfire.

"​The officer started at the projection room and started clearing down," Aaron said. "He encountered the gunman. The gunman opened fire on the South Precinct officer. That officer returned his fire, and then backed away out of the theater."

...snip...

"There was gunfire and the gunman is deceased just inside the movie theater," he said. "So we believe the imminent threat has been ended."

The Tennessean

[rollin74]

9. 3 people treated for exposure to pepper spray

1 superficial wound possibly from a hatchet