There have been eight individuals within the theater, together with the assailant, Aaron stated.
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Montano was committed four times for institutionalized psychiatric treatment – twice in 2004 and twice in 2007.
The violence at the Carmike Hickory 8 complex comes two weeks after a 59-year-old drifter opened fire inside a cinema in Lafayette, Louisiana, fatally shooting two before killing himself.
Also Wednesday, jurors in Colorado were preparing to decide whether James Holmes should be executed for murdering 12 people and trying to kill 70 others in a 2012 attack at a Batman movie. All three had been doused by pepper spray; one of them, a man, had a cut to his shoulder after he was apparently hit by a hatchet. Montano pointed his pellet gun at Frith and pulled the trigger, prompting Frith to fire one round from his patrol rifle in self-defense, the release said.
Metro police say a suspect who opened fire in a Antioch theater this afternoon also had a hatchet and may have injured one person with the hatchet. “That sort of provides me just a little bit extra religion in humanity once more”.
Steven added that he had “no idea why this gentleman decided to attack us”.
Montano had a device in a backpack that was supposed to look like a bomb and police detonated it as a precaution after he was killed.
One other victim was treated for non-life threatening injuries.
Montano was charged with assault a Murfreesboro Police officer and resisting arrest in September 2004, according to the Rutherford County Sheriff’s Office.
But, like Greene and Boler, after the shooting in Antioch, Tennessee, people’s opinions regarding fear and security in movie theaters is divided. Dozens of police officers flooded the scene of the shooting and blocked traffic in the area. One of them entered the theatre and encountered the gunman, who fired at the officer. Montano, was also armed with an “airsoft” pellet gun that resembled a semi-automatic handgun, was shot dead by police officers as he left the theater through a back door while carrying the ax, police said.
Local Uber driver Eric Vale, 32, told The Tennessean newspaper he was dropping off a passenger at the theater when he came across a scene of “utter chaos”.
“I simply could not consider this was occurring once more”, he stated.
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Mattie Sanchez works at the Sprint store near the theater. A woman at a Sprint Store near the shooting said that about three hours prior a man with two backpacks tried to enter through the back door of her store. That way you can have an idea where the exits are in case you’re disoriented, so you know which direction to go to.
