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Police shot dead a man wielding an axe, a replica handgun and pepper spray at a movie theatre near Nashville on Wednesday, in terrifying echoes of two previous cinema shootings.

In police reports released Thursday, it was revealed that the Antioch movie theater attacker had previous thoughts of suicide and homicide.

Three people suffered minor injuries. Aaron said there was a “great possibility” that Montano intended to use the canister as an explosive.

“The credit really goes to Officer Frith“, Swoner said. He requested a cup of water, then sat in the theater and allegedly stared down two women.

Montano tried to escape out the back door of the theater, and as he emerged with ax in hand and started toward officers, five of them opened fire, police said. The 911 call came through around 1:13 p.m. As the call was being made, people inside the theater hurried and told...