Police kill man wielding hatchet, pellet gun at theater

Thursday, August 6, 2015

ANTIOCH, Tenn. -- A man armed with a hatchet and a pellet gun unleashed a volley of pepper spray at audience members inside a movie theater Wednesday before being fired at by a police officer and shot dead by a SWAT team as he tried to escape out a back door, police said.

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