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Police: 1 man kills another,

surrenders at Nashville mall

By SHEILA BURKE and JON- said. “There’s a command
ATHAN MATTISE post set up. News trucks
Associated Press and cop cars everywhere,
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — just armed police officers.
One 22-year-old man end- Their response time was in-
ed a fight with another by credibly quick.”
fatally shooting him inside Jayla Chapple, 18, was in
a Tennessee mall on Thurs- an employee meeting in
day, and then gave up his the back of Moe’s South-
weapon and surrendered, west Grill when two peo-
saying he didn’t want any ple rushed in saying there An ambulance sits outside Opry Mills mall Thursday, May 3, 2018, in Nashville, Tenn.
more trouble, police said. was a shooter in the mall. Associated Press
Nashville Police spokesman Chapple, a shift leader at
Don Aaron said the shooter the restaurant, said the
put the gun on the counter employees started running
of a ticket booth inside the outside through the rear
Opry Mills Mall, and then exit.
was ordered to lay on the “I really didn’t have time
ground by a retired Califor- to think that much, but get
nia police officer who hap- out of there,” she said.
pened to be visiting the Troopers happened to be
city. doing motorcycle training
The gunfire prompted an in the mall’s parking lot at
outsized response. The mall the time, so they set up a
was evacuated, police of- perimeter to support the
ficers responded in force, responding police officers,
at least a half a dozen am- Tennessee Highway Patrol
bulances converged on Lt. Bill Miller said.
the scene and authorities Metro Nashville Police said
said the adjacent Grand in a tweet Thursday that
Ole Opry House and con- there was no further threat,
vention center were put on but officers were sweeping
lockdown. through the mall to make
The shooting couldn’t sure. Tonya Young said she
be heard over the battle raced to the scene when
scenes in a showing of she heard about the shoot-
“Avengers: Infinity War,” ing because her 17-year-
which was disrupted when old daughter, Victoria Holt,
officers in riot gear came works at one of the shops.
into the theater and told She later learned that her
everyone to leave. daughter was unhurt, but
“I’m just thinking Aurora, remained stuck inside while
Colorado,” said Dave officers did their work.
O’Brien, a crime and “Until I physically lay eyes
breaking news reporter on her, I’m not going to be
for the Record-Courier in ok,” Young said. “I want to
Kent, Ohio, who was visiting see her; I want to get to
Nashville with his girlfriend her.”
to check out CrimeCon, a The mall was built on the
convention of true crime former site of the Opryland
enthusiasts. USA theme park. With more
O’Brien said he grabbed than 200 stores, it is Tennes-
his media credentials and see’s biggest outlet mall,
then snapped some pho- featuring a movie theater,
tos and tweeted them. a celebrity wax figure mu-
“The exits are blocked. seum, restaurants and
Cops everywhere,” O’Brien more.q