One man was killed and 5 different folks had been wounded throughout a capturing inside a restaurant in Nashville, Tennessee, on Sunday afternoon, as many within the metropolis celebrated Easter, police mentioned.

The capturing at about 3pm in Nashville’s Salemtown neighborhood started inside minutes of the male suspect’s arrival on the restaurant with a lady, authorities mentioned.

The suspect and the person who died obtained into an argument that “considerably escalated inside moments”, a metropolitan Nashville police division spokesperson, Don Aaron, mentioned throughout a information convention on the scene.

Police later recognized the person who was killed as 33-year-old Allen Beachem. The situations of the opposite victims weren’t instantly launched.

Police recognized a 46-year-old named Anton Rucker because the suspect in Beachem’s slaying. They recognized him and the automobile he allegedly used to flee the scene with photos from safety video offered by the restaurant.

As a search continued on Sunday for Rucker, police posted photographs of the capturing scene on social media, together with a picture of a person pointing a handgun.

“The gunman was the one one who brandished a pistol. This was not a shootout, if you’ll – this was one one that determined to tug a gun primarily based on an altercation occurring with one other man after which he fired a number of photographs,” Aaron mentioned.

There was a panic contained in the restaurant as prospects tried to flee, the police commander Anthony McClain added.

“Some folks did attempt to withstand the gunman,” McClain mentioned. “It was simply mass chaos.”

Investigators had been at native hospitals on Sunday interviewing victims to find out precisely what occurred, Aaron mentioned.

“It might have been one thing so simple as one particular person invading one other particular person’s area,” he mentioned.

The violence in Nashville was one among not less than 4 mass shootings on Sunday throughout the US – and amongst practically 95 mass shootings nationwide to this point this 12 months, in keeping with the Gun Violence Archive.

The nonpartisan archive defines a mass capturing as one wherein 4 or extra victims are injured or killed.

Fixed mass shootings within the US have prompted many to name for extra substantial gun management, although few if any significant measures have been enacted.