Chilling 911 audio released Wednesday by Nashville police provided frightening real-time descriptions of the drama taking place Tuesday morning at a Smile Direct Club warehouse where three people were wounded and the gunman, 22-year-old Antonio King, was ultimately killed.
An early morning workplace shooting by an employee at a SmileDirectClub facility near Nashville, Tennessee, has left three employees wounded and the alleged shooter dead.
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‘given the vantage point represented by her video.’
SmileDirectClub, which manufactures a home teeth straightening system, released a statement, saying it was ‘saddened’ by the shooting and was cooperating with the investigation.
#VIDEO: “He just asked everybody ‘why are you running? why are you running?’ He just started opening fire, spraying it, the whole building.” Employee describes workplace shooting at Smile Direct Club warehouse on Antioch Pike. https://t.co/7LYKEzNYRLpic.twitter.com/e75G9qdi7W
King used a .45 caliber semi-automatic handgun and apparently had multiple clips in a sling pack he carried, police said.
Police said King, who worked the day shift at the warehouse, had been working there since June but had previously worked at the facility from late 2019 to early 2020.
Antioch, Tennessee shooting: 3 hurt at SmileDirectClub site, gunman killed
By Kelly Hayes
Antioch, Tennessee shooting: Bodycam footage
On Tuesday evening, police released graphic bodycam footage of the incident which included 911 calls from witnesses and surveillance video.
NASHVILLE, Tenn. - A 22-year-old employee of a SmileDirectClub warehouse opened fire on Tuesday at the facility in Tennessee, injuring three people before being shot and killed by responding officers, authorities said.
The shooting was reported at about 6 a.m. at the manufacturing facility located in Antioch, Tennessee. Three employees were shot and transported to the hospital, whom police later identified as security guards Johnny Hardin, 46, and Carlton Watson, 66, and manager Thomas Abbott, 54.