Shooting near Tennessee State University leaves 1 dead, 9 injured, including children, officials say
https://www.cnn.com/2024/10/12/us/nashville-shooting-near-tennessee-state-university/index.html
Mon October 14, 2024
A man was killed and nine other people were injured in a shooting Saturday in North Nashville near Tennessee State University and investigators believe at least one of the injured participated in the gunfire, officials said.
The shooting happened around 5 p.m., 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.”
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 noncritical 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 Tennessee State 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. The homecoming parade took place several hours before the shooting, starting at 8 a.m. and concluding around 12 p.m.
“This had nothing to do with TSU or any of our homecoming activities,” Jenai Hayes, a spokesperson for TSU, said of the shooting. “No homecoming events were happening or slated to happen or were occurring during the” time of the shooting, she added.
Investigators didn’t immediately know whether any of the people shot were 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.