NEW DELHI: One person was killed and five were injured after a shooting at a Nashville, Tennessee, restaurant on Sunday afternoon, according to police.
Police identified the deceased as Allen Beachem, 33. The conditions of the remaining victims were not immediately released.
The shooting began around 3pm in Nashville’s Salemtown neighborhood, only minutes after the male suspect arrived at the restaurant with a woman, authorities said.
“Some people did try to resist the gunman,” Police commander McClain said. “It was just mass chaos.”
The suspect and the man who died got into a fight that “significantly escalated within moments,” Metropolitan Nashville Police department spokesperson Don Aaron said at a news conference on the site.
Using photographs from the restaurant’s security video, police identified a 46-year-old suspect and the automobile he used to depart. As the search for the suspect continued Sunday, authorities shared photographs of the shooting scene on social media, including one showing a guy brandishing a firearm.
“The gunman was the only one who brandished a pistol. This was not a shootout, if you will, this was one person who decided to pull a gun based on an altercation occurring with another man and then he fired multiple shots,” Aaron said.