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Metro Nashville Police fatally shoot man in Hermitage

The home of Mark Capps, a Hermitage man shot by police on Jan. 5.
Courtesy of MNPD
Police fatally shot Mark Capps in Hermitage in early January. The officer involved in the incident has a history of using force and eight suspensions.
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Metro Nashville Police fatally shot a man in Hermitage on Thursday.

According to the department, a SWAT officer fired on a 54-year-old man who was wanted for assault and kidnapping charges. The department says the man was armed, although they don’t specify what he was armed with.

The Community Oversight Board confirmed the shooting and was on the scene Thursday afternoon to begin its investigation.

This is the first fatal shooting of the year by Nashville police .

In 2022, three people were fatally shot by Nashville police — two in November and one in January.

This is a developing story. Some things that get reported early on, by the media or law enforcement, could later turn out to be wrong. WPLN News will have updates as the situation develops.

Paige Pfleger, Criminal Justice Reporter

Paige Pfleger covers criminal justice for WPLN News. She has investigated guns and juvenile justice as a fellow with ProPublica's Local Reporting Network, and her investigation into domestic violence and firearms dispossession won a regional Edward R. Murrow award and was a finalist for an Investigative Reporters and Editors Award and a Livingston Award. She previously covered criminal justice and addiction in Ohio and was named the state's reporter of the year by the Associated Press. Her work has appeared nationally on NPR, The Washington Post, Marketplace, and PRI's The World, and she has worked in the newsrooms of The Tennessean, Michigan Radio, WHYY, Vox and NPR headquarters in DC.

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