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Responding SWAT officers then engaged in a standoff with Montano, who had taken cover and was throwing objects including canisters of pepper spray at police who had trained their weapons on him, police spokesman Don Aaron said.

Nashville Metro police have identified the attacker killed in Wednesday’s Antioch movie theater attack as 29-year-old Vincente David Montano.

“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...

Police were called to the Hickory 8 theater in Antioch, Tennessee, about 19 kilometers outside of Nashville, at around 1:13 pm, where an estimated 20 people were watching the film, according to Aaron.