One killed, five injured in shooting at Nashville restaurant

A man was killed and five other people were injured during a shooting inside a Nashville, Tennessee, restaurant on Sunday afternoon.

The shooting in Nashville’s Salemtown neighborhood began within minutes of the male suspect’s arrival at the restaurant with a woman.

The suspect and the man who died got into an argument that “significantly escalated within moments,” Metropolitan Nashville Police Department spokesman Don Aaron said during a news conference at the scene.

Police later identified the deceased man as 33-year-old Allen Beachem. The conditions of the other victims were not immediately released.

Police identified a 46-year-old suspect and the car used to flee the scene with images from security video provided by the restaurant. As a search continued Sunday for the the suspect, police posted photos of the shooting scene on social media, including an image of a man pointing a handgun.

“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.



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