(VOVworld) - A man wearing a mask and carrying a hatchet and pepper spray attacked a movie theater near Nashville, Tennessee, on Wednesday afternoon before being shot dead by police officers.
29-year-old Vincente David Montano (Photo:abc7chicago.com)
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Nashville police shared on Twitter that the attack at the Hickory 8 movie theatre, 19 km from Nashville, injured three people. Police identified the suspected attacker as Vincente David Montano, 29, of Nashville. Mr. Montano carried two backpacks, one of which hung from his chest. The other contained a fake bomb.
A man wielding a hatchet and pepper spray was killed inside a Tennessee movie theater (Photo: CNN)
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Two weeks ago, a man attacked a movie theatre in Louisiana, killing two women and injuring nine others before killing himself. In another development, shooting occurred near the Camp Shelby Joint Forces Training Center in southern Mississippi, but no one was injured.