in the place? one customer, actually. but that s they would not let anybody in. they were, you know, they locked down all the entrances and everything so there was nobody coming in. okay. we certainly appreciate your information. thank you, lanny. glad you re safe and we appreciate you sharing information with us here on channel 4. and we are watching some local news coverage of wsym in nashville. recent shooting taking place at a theater. information slowly trickling in. we do know that there was one gunman. he was armed with a firearm as well as a hatchet. had two bags, one attached to him and one that was left in the proximity of the theater. jim cavanaugh, in terms of crime issues on with me now, jim, i think we are sort of trying to figure out if this is affiliate trying to figure out what happened here. whether or not the shooting was inside of the theater directly, which it seems to be and then
agent in charge and joins us on the phone. jim, you know the nashville area quite well. and i just want to sort of get your thoughts from what you ve heard so far. it almost seems as though this gunman was inside the theater with a gun but we do not know if that gun was discharged on victims. we don t know if there s injuries or severity and the s.w.a.t. team did go into that theater. what do you make of the situation from what you have heard? sounds from what don aaron said, the public information officer for the nashville police, with that south patrol officers and the precinct is not far away and heavily patrolled area, that theater area, right off i-24 in south nashville. always a lot of patrol cars there and south precinct officer got in quick and encountered the gunman and looked like they
a person saw a police return fire at the shooter and now nashville police fweeting out that the suspect is dead. let s listen in to local coverage of this developing story. he could not confirm and said that the s.w.a.t. team going inside the building. we know from what you re being told is it did happen inside the movie theater. where we think it may have originated? from what witnesses are telling me, that s what it sounds to be. and the gentleman is a uber driver. taking someone to the movies offer the area? yes. dropping them off when all this happens. heather, walk us through and did not let that person inside. sure. walk us through what you re seeing, a play by play there. looks like that the bomb squad truck is there. yeah. so yes. looks like blocking off more of this area. you can see so many different crews around this entire
killing the guy. we see the response in lafaye e lafayette, louisiana. the guy went back in the theater seeing the officers time and te quick response is there or the police are there and they can put a stop to these is and save lives. i don t think there is doubt they did that today. and just to recap what we have learned, is that there is a gunmen, entered the showing of the film mad max. and thankfully no wounds reported except for some superficial wounds caused by a hatchet. and there might have been a scuffle there due to the nature of the injuries that is time with a rash of the movie theater
response pretty quick, too. they have a first-rate police force there in nashville. they have guys on top of it. they keep the force up. patrol men right on it apparently and the s.w.a.t. team is excellent and they ll take the backpacks and render them safe with the robots, check them out and see and then the thing to come back, who is this guy and what was going on with right. what kind of attack was this? all kinds of motives. jim, regarding motives, look, we obviously now in the penalty phase of that horrific shooting in colorado back in 2012. during what screening of batman. there is a shooting in louisiana. a few weeks back during a screening of the amy schumer film. and now you have this. is it fair to say that this is movie theaters becoming a target? a well, you got a copycat