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officer involved shooting

Nashville police detective injured in shooting; officers fatally shoot suspect

Tony Gonzalez

June 1, 2023

Donovan Coble MNPD photo

Det. Donovan Coble was hospitalized with a gunshot to his ribs and was last listed in critical-stable condition.

Filed Under: Criminal Justice, WPLN News Tagged With: Donelson, Metro Nashville Police Department, officer involved shooting

Nashville police fatally shoot man on River Road — the second fatal shooting in 24 hours

Paige Pfleger

November 13, 2022

Nashville police shooting

Officers confronted a man on the side of the road and used a Taser before the fatal shot.

Filed Under: Criminal Justice, WPLN News Tagged With: Metro Nashville Police Department, officer involved shooting

Fatal shooting by Nashville officers under investigation

WPLN Staff

November 12, 2022

Nashville police shooting in Madison

A man is dead Saturday morning after a fatal shooting by Nashville police. MNPD has released excerpts from body camera footage of the incident.

Filed Under: Criminal Justice, WPLN News Tagged With: Madison, Metro Nashville Police Department, officer involved shooting, shootings

TBI report: Most people killed by law enforcement in Tennessee in 2021 were armed

Samantha Max

March 31, 2022

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The Tennessee Bureau of Investigation’s latest reporting on law enforcement-related deaths reveals that most people killed by police were armed.

Filed Under: Criminal Justice, Politics, Race & Equity, WPLN News Tagged With: 112th Tennessee General Assembly, Metro Nashville Police Department, officer involved shooting, TBI

Mental health clinicians often aren’t on the scene when police interactions turn deadly. Here’s why.

Samantha Max

February 4, 2022

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The interstate was filled law enforcement last Thursday when nine officers from different agencies shot and killed Landon Eastep. Many in Nashville are wondering why no mental health counselors were there to calm things down.

Filed Under: Criminal Justice, WPLN News Investigates Tagged With: mental health, Metro Nashville Police Department, officer involved shooting

‘He was crying out for help’: Landon Eastep’s widow questions law enforcement after 9 officers shot her husband on the side of a Nashville interstate

Samantha Max

January 28, 2022

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Once again, investigations are underway, body camera footage is circulating, loved ones are grieving and a city is left to wonder: Why have so many recent encounters with police turned violent?

Filed Under: Criminal Justice, Race & Equity, WPLN News Tagged With: davidson county district attorney, Metro Nashville Police Department, Mt. Juliet, officer involved shooting, TBI, Tennessee Highway Patrol

TBI investigating late afternoon shooting on I-65

Marianna BacallaoandRachel Iacovone

January 27, 2022

Sign outside the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation headquarters

The Tennessee Bureau of Investigation says agents are at the scene of a shooting on I-65 after Nashville police, Tennessee Highway Patrol troopers and an off-duty Mt. Juliet officer shot and killed a 37-year-old man while, they say, they were responding to reports of a person with a box cutter.

Filed Under: Criminal Justice, WPLN News Tagged With: Metro Nashville Police Department, Metro Police, MNPD, Nashville police, officer involved shooting, police, shooting, shootings, TBI, Tennessee Highway Patrol

TBI investigations into shootings by Tennessee law enforcement are on the rise

Samantha Max

January 13, 2022

Sign outside the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation headquarters

State agents have launched their first investigation of the new year into a shooting by law enforcement.

Filed Under: Criminal Justice, WPLN News Tagged With: Metro Nashville Police Department, officer involved shooting, TBI

Here’s what we know about the 10 shootings by Nashville police in 2021

Samantha Max

December 23, 2021

A sign at Metro Nashville Police Headquarters
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Metro Nashville Police Department officers have shot 10 people in 2021 — seven fatally. That far surpasses the total in any year since the department started tracking these incidents in 2005. And it doesn’t count two additional instances when young men shot and killed themselves during encounters with officers.

Filed Under: Criminal Justice, WPLN News Tagged With: Metro Nashville Police Department, officer involved shooting

Fatal shooting by Nashville police officer under investigation in Madison

Chas SiskandTony Gonzalez

December 16, 2021

The Metro Nashville Police Department has not yet released the identity of a man who was shot and killed by officers near a park in Madison. The shooting was the 10th by Nashville police in 2021, and the seventh to be fatal.

Filed Under: WPLN News Tagged With: Metro Nashville Police Department, officer involved shooting

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