He has no arrest record in Nashville, police said. They engaged in a gun battle and the officer backed out while a SWAT team responded. He had an identification card that listed a Nashville address, Anderson said, but authorities want to check fingerprints to confirm his identity.
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Earlier Wednesday, police had said the man was 51. He died in a shootout with police. He said investigators were going through a second backpack that Montano left at the theater.
Authorities say they are still investigating reports one person may have injuries from the hatchet.
The suspected shooter at an Antioch movie theater is dead, according to Metro police.
The theater complex sits in a commercial area in Antioch, a middle-class community in the southern part of Nashville. Steven’s daughter was also pepper sprayed by Montano.
Police believed Montano then filled the theater with pepper spray. Don Aaron said the man had walked in with two backpacks.
Wearing a surgical mask, he is said to have unleashed a thick cloud of pepper spray in the theater with about eight other moviegoers. He encountered the [man, who] opened fire on the south precinct officer.
The male victim, identified only as “Steven”, also suffered a minor laceration from the hatchet, said he was “eternally grateful” for the quick police response.
The air inside the theater was thick with the chemical irritant, according to Aaron.
Brad Ransom, who told CNN he works across the street from the theater, said he saw four or five officers along the side of the building around the time of the fatal shooting. He did not have further details.
‘The suspect raised his weapon toward that officer, pulled the trigger.
Some of the theatergoers in the audience ran outside and alerted police officers who had responded to a vehicle crash nearby, police said in a news release issued late Wednesday. The suspect was then found dead.
A representative for the Nashville Police Department did not immediately respond to EW’s request for comment.
“I’m relieved that no one else was killed, and again, I thank the police for that”, he said in a statement.
Police were called to the Hickory 8 theatre in Antioch, Tennessee on Wednesday afternoon, where an estimated 20 people were watching the film.
Nashville Fire Department spokesman Brian Haas said two women, aged 53 and 17 years, were doused with pepper spray by the suspect.
Nashville police said the man was carrying a hatchet, along with the gun.
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Several local businesses were put into lock down after reports of shots fired. She told The Associated Press by phone that a man who had two backpacks and fit the description of the attacker tried to enter a backdoor of the store about 11 a.m.
