{"id":25530,"date":"2024-04-01T03:12:56","date_gmt":"2024-04-01T08:12:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/?p=25530"},"modified":"2024-04-01T03:13:04","modified_gmt":"2024-04-01T08:13:04","slug":"easter-brunch-shooting-leaves-1-dead-and-5-others-wounded-in-nashville-police-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/?p=25530","title":{"rendered":"Easter brunch shooting leaves 1 dead and 5 others wounded in Nashville, police say"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">One person was killed and at least five others were wounded in a&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/us\/crime-and-justice\"><u>shooting<\/u><\/a>&nbsp;at a Nashville restaurant during Easter brunch celebrations Sunday afternoon and police say they are looking for a suspect who fled in an SUV.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThis was not a shootout \u2026This was one person who decided to pull a gun based on an altercation occurring with another man and then he fired multiple shots,\u201d Nashville police spokesperson Don Aaron said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">Police said they are seeking Anton Rucker, 46, in the shooting. Authorities say he is a&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MNPDNashville\/status\/1774613883623190981\"><u>convicted felon<\/u><\/a>&nbsp;and fled the restaurant, Roasted, in a Mercedes SUV.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">The man who was killed was identified as Allen Beachem, 33, according to a post on X by the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MNPDNashville\/status\/1774621280341279167\"><u>Metro Nashville Police Department<\/u><\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">Police didn\u2019t name the others who were shot. Those five people have non-critical wounds, Aaron said in an afternoon news conference. Medical responders also transported another person who was possibly grazed by a bullet and a pregnant woman who suffered an apparent panic attack.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">The suspected gunman had arrived at the restaurant minutes before the shooting with a woman, who also left with him in a Mercedes SUV, Aaron said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">Detectives believe the man who was killed and the assailant were having an argument that escalated quickly, Aaron said. The restaurant was crowded, though police couldn\u2019t say how many people were inside when the gunfire began.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">Anthony McClain, the north precinct commander for the Metropolitan Nashville Police Department, said surveillance video showed \u201cmass chaos\u201d during the shooting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cEveryone\u2019s trying&nbsp;to&nbsp;get&nbsp;out&nbsp;and&nbsp;trying&nbsp;to&nbsp;escape&nbsp;the&nbsp;gunfire,\u201d he said. \u201cSome&nbsp;people&nbsp;did&nbsp;try&nbsp;to&nbsp;resist&nbsp;the&nbsp;gun,&nbsp;the&nbsp;gunman.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">Police said there is no indication the suspect and victim knew each other and called the shooting an isolated incident.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">Authorities posted photos from the shooting on social media, including an image of someone who appears to be holding a gun.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">Police released another photo of the suspected gunman sitting at a table and urged anyone with information to contact detectives.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/edition.cnn.com\/2024\/03\/31\/us\/nashville-easter-brunch-shooting\/index.html\">Cnn<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One person was killed and at least five others were wounded in a&nbsp;shooting&nbsp;at a Nashville restaurant during Easter brunch celebrations Sunday afternoon and police say they are looking for a suspect who fled in an SUV. \u201cThis was not a shootout \u2026This was one person who decided to pull a gun based on an altercation [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":25531,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1154],"tags":[5251,1487,1237,9036],"class_list":["post-25530","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-trending","tag-easter","tag-nashville","tag-police","tag-the-shooting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25530","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25530"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25530\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25532,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25530\/revisions\/25532"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/25531"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25530"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25530"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}