Suspected shooter at Tennessee theater reported dead

A suspect is dead after police in Antioch, Tennessee, responded to reports of an active shooter at the Carmike 8 Cinema on Wednesday afternoon.

Officials said the suspect entered the theater, located southeast of Nashville, at about 1 p.m. and began firing shots. The suspect had a gun and hatchet and fired his weapon at an officer, according to the Associated Press. The officer fired back and a SWAT team entered the theater, then another round of gunfire occurred. The suspect was found dead afterward.

The shooting happened just weeks after John Russell Houser opened fire on a showing of “Trainwreck” at a movie theater in Lafayette, Louisiana, injuring nine people and killing three, including himself.

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