NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WKRN) — An investigation is underway after a person was shot and killed by two Metro law enforcement officials in downtown Nashville Friday morning.
Officers had been known as to the Greyhound bus station on the intersection of Fifth Avenue South/Rep. John Lewis Means South and Lafayette Road round 6 a.m. for a suicide name.
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In line with Metro police, witness advised officers the person stated he had a gun and reached right into a backpack. Two Metro officers then fired their weapons. He was taken to Vanderbilt College Medical Heart the place he died.
Throughout a press convention, a Metro police spokesperson stated the person known as dispatch himself to report he was “feeling violent.” When the 2 Central precinct officers encountered the person, they had been “compelled to fireside upon him out of concern for their very own security,” in keeping with Metro police.
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No officers had been injured. They had been each positioned on routine administrative project through the investigation.
No weapon was discovered within the man’s backpack.
At the least 20 Metro police cruisers responded to the scene and blocked the intersection off with crime scene tape. Fifth Avenue was closed to visitors driving away from downtown at Division Road.
The backpack was seen on the bottom with at the least 9 bullet casing markers round it.
Brokers with the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation are additionally on the scene to help with the investigation. Physique worn footage from the officers’ cameras is predicted to be launched later Friday.
No further info was instantly launched.
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