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Witness video from the scene showed a heavy police presence at the movie theater.

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.

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...