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One dead, multiple injured in shooting near Tennessee State University
By Mitchell Goodbar For Dailymail.ComPublished: 20:13 EDT, 12 October 2024 | Updated: 21:46 EDT, 12 October 2024
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One person is dead and at least nine others have been injured after gunfire erupted near Tennessee State University in Nashville.
The incident occurred on Saturday night at one of the school's homecoming events.
According to the Metro Nashville Police Department, the bullets were fired near the intersection of Jefferson Street and 27th street just after 5 pm.
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In a statement posted on X.com just after 6:30 pm, they said that 'the scene is secure. All victims are at area hospitals.'
Gunfire erupted near Tennessee State University in Nashville in an apparent shooting that left multiple people injured.
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Police later identified the deceased as a 24-year-old man. They also noted that three of the victims were juveniles, whose injuries are 'non-critical.'
'At least one of the injured is suspected to have been involved in the gunfire.'
The police confirmed to Fox that multiple people had been shot. According to witnesses, more than half a dozen gunshots rang out, before they dropped to the ground for cover.
Some bystanders said that they saw the victims being carried on stretchers.
At 5:30 pm, the university alerted students that there was an active shooter off campus. TSU said that the suspects were two black men and that they might have been driving a Ford Fusion.
According to the Metro Nashville Police Department, the bullets were fired near the intersection of Jefferson Street and 27th street just after 5 pm
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The incident reportedly occurred on Saturday night at one of the school's homecoming events.
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Rauf Muhammad, 58, was less than 50 yards from the incident when he heard the gunfire.
'Everybody having fun, music playing or what not. Then all of a sudden, you just hear like you off in a war somewhere,' Muhammad told the Tennessean.
After hearing the sudden shots, he dropped to the ground. Muhammad said that the authorities were at the scene within five minutes.
Jashawna Rucker, a young high school graduate, was also on Jefferson Street, where the gunfire broke out.
Rucker said: I was so close to it. I thought it was just fireworks. And everybody was just running. And I started running - I almost fell.'
Police later identified the deceased as a 24-year-old man
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During a briefing later in the evening, MNPD Public Information Officer Brooke Reese said that there were ten victims
During a briefing later in the evening, MNPD Public Information Officer Brooke Reese said that there were ten victims.
'At this point, there are 10 victims that have been confirmed to have been involved in that gunfire, one of which is deceased,' Reese said.
'Five of them were transported from the Nashville Fire Department to local hospitals.
'Five others were dropped off by private vehicles, and at least some of those that were injured at area hospitals are also suspected to have been involved in the gunfire.'
Kendra Loney of the Nashville Fire Department said when the gunfire erupted, there were first responders posted throughout the area because they were participating in the school's homecoming parade.
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Even though the responders didn't have their equipment with them, they still jumped into action.
Loney said that some heroic officials 'ripped off their belts' so that they could use them as tourniquets.
'We don't know what the final number will be for victims, but we are grateful at this point that it's not higher.
'We are also grateful that first responders, law enforcement, and fire and EMS personnel were on the scene.'
One dead, multiple injured in shooting near Tennessee State University
Gunfire erupted near Tennessee State University in Nashville in an apparent shooting that left multiple people injured
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Shooting near Tennessee State University after homecoming parade leaves 1 dead, 9 injured, officials say
By Emma Tucker, CNN
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Updated 9:33 AM EDT, Sun October 13, 2024
Police respond to the scene of a shooting at Jefferson Street and 26th Avenue in Nashville on Saturday.
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A man was killed and nine other people were injured in a shooting Saturday near Tennessee State University as the Nashville school celebrated homecoming – and investigators believe at least one of the injured participated in the gunfire, officials said.
The shooting happened around 5 p.m. along a street where TSU’s homecoming parade had taken place that morning, Nashville police and fire officials said at a news conference Saturday evening.
“There’s no indication of any gang relation,” said Don Aaron, a spokesperson for the Metropolitan Nashville Police Department. “It was two groups of people who were beefing and they opened fire on each other with a crowd around.”
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The man who died was 24 years old, police said on X. His name, the names of the injured and information about a motive were not immediately released.
At least three of the injured were children who had non-critical injuries, Nashville police said on X. A 12-year-old girl and two 14-year-old girls were taken to an area children’s hospital, according to Aaron. The other victims range in age from a 23-year-old man to a 55-year-old woman, who was in critical condition, Aaron added.
“We believe that the others are going to survive and recover,” Aaron said.
At least one of the injured people “is suspected to have been involved in the gunfire,” Nashville police said on X. Police didn’t immediately say whether they were looking for anyone in connection with the shooting.
Saturday marked the end of homecoming week at the university. The school’s football team played its homecoming game Saturday evening at Nashville’s Nissan Stadium, roughly 3 miles east of where the shooting happened.
Investigators didn’t immediately know whether any of the people shot were TSU students, Nashville police Cmdr. Anthony McClain told reporters.
“We think this is something that was kind of a sidebar to the (homecoming) celebration” and “not a direct reflection on the university itself,” McClain said.
The shooting took place several blocks away from campus, the university said in a statement. In a separate incident, three people were injured at Nissan Stadium following “an argument that escalated into a fight in the parking lot,” causing a crowd to run for safety and trample several people, the university said.
“Please keep the affected families in your thoughts and prayers during this difficult time,” the university said.
First responders rushed to help
Firefighters who already were in the area to do community outreach during the morning parade rushed to the wounded after the gunfire, city fire department spokesperson Kendra Loney said.The firefighters who were at the shooting scene “said it just sounded like fireworks… until they realized it wasn’t,” Loney said.
“Our personnel recounted to me some moments where they ripped off their belts and did things like use those as tourniquets because they did not have their medical bags with them,” Loney said.
The shooting “interrupted what was otherwise a fun and eventful day for a lot of people here today,” Loney said.
Of the 10 shot, five were taken to hospitals by fire department personnel, and the others were “dropped off by private vehicles,” Nashville police spokesperson Brooke Reese said.
Authorities are making progress in their investigation, which remains ongoing, Aaron said.
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