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NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WKRN) -- Nashville constabulary officers and archetypal responders were called to a Saturday evening shooting adjacent Tennessee State University (TSU) that killed 1 idiosyncratic and injured 9 others.
According to the Metro Nashville Police Department (MNPD), gunfire erupted astir 5 p.m. connected Saturday, Oct. 12 adjacent the intersection of Jefferson Street and 27th Avenue North.
A TSU spokesperson sent the pursuing connection to News 2 astir 5:45 p.m.:
Nashville Metro Police are investigating a shooting astatine 27th and Jefferson adjacent the House of Legends and Jefferson Street Baptist Missionary Baptist Church. Police accidental the fishy remains astatine ample and everyone should usage caution if traveling successful the area.
Just aft 6:30 p.m., authorities confirmed the country has been secured.
"At this point, determination are 10 victims that person been confirmed to person been progressive successful that gunfire, 1 of which is deceased. Five of them were transported from the Nashville Fire Department to section hospitals. Five others were dropped disconnected by backstage vehicles, and astatine slightest immoderate of those that were injured astatine country hospitals are besides suspected to person been progressive successful the gunfire," MNPD Public Information Officer Brooke Reese said during a Saturday evening briefing.
According to Kendra Loney with the Nashville Fire Department (NFD), crews were staged passim the country due to the fact that they were participating successful the TSU homecoming parade and engaging with the assemblage amid the homecoming festivities.
When the gunfire broke out, Loney said immoderate NFD unit thought it was fireworks, but erstwhile they realized what was happening, they jumped into action, with immoderate adjacent utilizing their belts arsenic tourniquets due to the fact that they didn't person their aesculapian bags with them.
"While we don't privation immoderate sick connected anyone, we are upset, we are aggravated astir that disruption, we are aggravated that determination were persons whose days were disrupted, that the innocence successful this lawsuit was taken away, and that lives were endangered," Loney said.
Loney reported that 1 NFD worker was transported for an unrelated aesculapian emergency, successful summation to the 5 radical injured successful the shooting that NFD brought to the hospital.
This shooting was reported conscionable aft TSU kicked disconnected its homecoming shot game against Eastern Illinois University astatine Nissan Stadium.
