Associated Press
NASHVILLE, Tenn. 鈥� A man was killed and five other people were injured during a shooting inside a Nashville, Tennessee, restaurant on Sunday afternoon, police said.
The shooting around 3 p.m. in Nashville鈥檚 Salemtown neighborhood began within minutes of the male suspect鈥檚 arrival at the restaurant with a woman, police said.
The suspect and the man who died got into an argument that 鈥渟ignificantly escalated within moments,鈥� Metropolitan Nashville Police Department spokesman Don Aaron said during a news conference at the scene.
Police later identified the deceased man as 33-year-old Allen Beachem. The conditions of the other victims were not immediately released.
Police identified a 46-year-old suspect and the car used to flee the scene with images from security video provided by the restaurant. As a search continued Sunday for the the suspect, police posted photos of the shooting scene on social media, including an image of a man pointing a handgun.
鈥淭he gunman was the only one who brandished a pistol. This was not a shootout, if you will, this was one person who decided to pull a gun based on an altercation occurring with another man and then he fired multiple shots,鈥� Aaron said.
There was a panic inside the restaurant as customers tried to escape, Police Commander Anthony McClain said.
鈥淪ome people did try to resist the gunman,鈥� McClain said. 鈥淚t was just mass chaos.鈥�
Investigators were at local hospitals Sunday interviewing victims to determine exactly what happened, Aaron said.
鈥淚t may have been something as simple as one person invading another person鈥檚 space,鈥� he said.