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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.

A man with a history of mental health issues who wielded an ax and a pellet gun at a Nashville-area movie theater was shot dead by police on Wednesday, authorities said.

“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.

Police say the suspect in a shooting at a Nashville-area movie theater was armed with a hatchet and a gun before being shot by an officer.

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...

The former Marine entered the darkened theater, with the movie still playing, and encountered Montano, who appeared to be shooting at him. He said officers were directed to theater 4. Sandy Phillips and her husband no longer celebrate Thanksgiving because it falls so near...

The shooter, who ended his life as police descended upon the Lafayette, Louisiana theater, appears to have been a relatively active poster on Tea Party and other right-wing online forums, often using the nickname “Rusty Houser”, which the Daily Beast reports is tied...

Lafayette Police Department Three security cameras caught Houser before he carried out his fatal attack.

Baltimore: Three people were killed and one was wounded when gunmen opened fire on a group of people on a street near the University of Maryland, Baltimore, police said on Wednesday.

As previously reported by The Inquisitr, on June 17, a gunman – allegedly Roof – opened fire on a Bible study at Charleston’s historically Black Emmanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church, killing nine people, including the church’s pastor, politician...

The flag debate is the center of the state’s political focus because of the June 17 church shooting at Mother Emanuel AME Church in Charleston that left nine people dead, including the pastor of the church, Clementa Pinckney, who was also a state senator.

Assistant police Chief Brian Manley held a press conference downtown Sunday morning, and said that the 911 caller reported that the gunman had shot someone around 4:50 a.m. and was continuing to fire shots around the lobby.