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One man in critical condition after shooting at Nashville shopping centre

Police said the shooting appeared to be the result of an ongoing dispute between two males.

Updated at 9.50pm

NASHVILLE POLICE SAID a suspect is in custody and there’s no further threat after a man was wounded inside a shopping centre in Nashville, Tennessee.

He was taken to Skyline Medical Center in a critical condition. Nashville police said that early indications were that the incident was a result of “an ongoing dispute”.

The suspected gunman left the building and immediately surrendered, they said.

Initially there were media reports of a number of casualties, but the Nashville Fire Department said these were false.

The Opry Mills Mall was evacuated after reports of gunfire that prompted a large police response. At least half a dozen ambulances converged on the scene; police said they were sweeping the building as a precaution.

Troopers were already in the mall’s parking lot doing motorcycle training, so they set up a perimeter to support the responding police officers, Tennessee Highway Patrol Lt. Bill Miller said.

The US law enforcement organisation, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, is also responding to the scene of the shooting.

- With reporting from Gráinne Ní Aodha

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    Mute FlyingDogThing
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    May 3rd 2018, 9:19 PM

    At this stage, mass shootings in America aren’t big news.

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    Mute Dave Thomas
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    May 3rd 2018, 9:22 PM

    @FlyingDogThing: nope. I’m more surprised when I don’t hear of one.

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    Mute Scott Peterson
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    May 3rd 2018, 9:24 PM

    @FlyingDogThing:
    Or wars, famines, natural disasters and financial manipulation of national economies by large corporations.
    In other news:
    One person, a woman reported injured and the shooter is already in custody.

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    Mute ✨Barbara Christopher
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    May 3rd 2018, 9:48 PM

    @FlyingDogThing: They are when it’s approaching J1 time!!!

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    Mute Jimmy Ryan Rises
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    May 3rd 2018, 9:51 PM

    @FlyingDogThing: Where was the mass shooting?

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    Mute Scott Peterson
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    May 3rd 2018, 10:00 PM

    @Jimmy Ryan Rises:
    There wasn’t one.
    Guess that’s big news too for some folk.

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    Mute Jimmy Ryan Rises
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    May 3rd 2018, 10:10 PM

    @Scott Peterson: Just wondering why this would be major news. There is actually a mass shooting on average every day in the US. And over 110 gun murders or injuries every day (not including suicide).

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    Mute FlopFlipU
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    May 4th 2018, 6:18 AM

    @Jimmy Ryan Rises: I am going to stop going to mass so

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    Mute Michael Lang
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    May 3rd 2018, 9:45 PM

    This is just a hunch but could ease of access to guns be a factor in these crimes?

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    Mute Clinton Baptiste
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    May 3rd 2018, 10:26 PM

    @Michael Lang: Not really , you are twice as likely to be shot dead in Brazil while gun ownership is only 1/12th of the united States .
    You’re also as likely to be shot dead in South Africa , but again gun ownership is about 1/9th of the USA .
    But hey , keep banging .

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    May 4th 2018, 9:51 AM

    @Michael Lang: Big pharma and it’s influence in politicians is the problem here Michael.

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    Mute John Bart
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    May 3rd 2018, 9:25 PM

    Lunatic state, if they are not bombing other country’s they are slaughter each other, totally addicted to violence.

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    May 3rd 2018, 9:29 PM

    @John Bart: violence and fear is what they are fed.

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    Mute Seamus Mc Meel
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    May 3rd 2018, 9:30 PM

    @John Bart: Way to paint with a very broad brush,buddy! Painted any pictures of the beer soaked Irish recently?

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    May 3rd 2018, 9:35 PM

    @John Bart:
    Interestingly enough the US states with the highest murder rates also have the lowest incomes and poor education.
    Poverty in Tennessee is acute, and high school and college graduation rates are lower than most of the country.
    Is there a connection?
    I don’t know. Ask the people of Sheriff St?

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    May 3rd 2018, 9:37 PM

    @John Bart:
    But then again you’ll probably just discount them as ignorant white trailer trash deserving of no better Bart.

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    May 3rd 2018, 9:38 PM

    @Deborah Behan: Spot on. For such a powerful nation, they are afraid of their own shadow.

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    May 3rd 2018, 9:44 PM

    @Peter Cavey:
    The shadow of a gunman.

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    May 3rd 2018, 9:57 PM

    @Scott Peterson: The shadow of 140,000,000 gunmen/women.

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    Mute Richard McCarthy
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    May 3rd 2018, 11:18 PM

    @John Bart: Jeez dont get me started on our own homegrown psycho’s addicted to violence,well over 14 unsolved gangland murders in the last few years right on our own doorstep,across the pond 22 murders in London the majority stabbings so far this year one more than NYC,and that’s with some of the strictest weapon laws in the world.

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    May 3rd 2018, 9:44 PM

    What a kip.

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    May 3rd 2018, 11:53 PM

    He died in hospital. Gunman gave himself up.

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    May 4th 2018, 10:27 AM

    Newsflash: USA
    Reports are coming in that nobody shot anyone in Newport Rhode Island today.
    Reporters are rushing to the area to verify this strange occurrence…

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    Mute Mike Hawkins
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    May 4th 2018, 3:24 PM

    Where in Ireland

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