Last Updated May 3, 2018 4:34 PM EDT
NASHVILLE, Tenn. — A man was wounded after a dispute led to gunfire Thursday at Opry Mills Mall in Nashville, according to Nashville police and fire officials. Metro Nashville police said the shooting was apparently the result of an ongoing dispute between two males, one of whom was shot and brought to the hospital in critical condition.
The suspected gunman left the mall and immediately surrendered to authorities, police say.
Numerous ambulances and emergency vehicles were seen outside the mall Thursday, with people standing in the parking lot.
Troopers were already in the mall’s parking lot doing motorcycle training, so they set up a perimeter to support the responding police officers, Tennessee Highway Patrol Lt. Bill Miller said.
The mall was being swept by Metro Nashville police as a precaution.
Eighteen-year-old Jayla Chapple was in an employee meeting in the back of Moe’s Southwest Grill when two people bolted into the back of the restaurant to report the shooting in the mall. Chapple, a shift leader at the restaurant, says employees ran outside through a rear exit.
Says Chapple: “I really didn’t have time to think that much, but get out of there.”
With more than 200 stores, Opry Mills is Tennessee’s biggest outlet mall, featuring a movie theater, a celebrity wax figure museum, and restaurants. It’s situated nearby to the famed Grand Ole Opry and the sprawling Gaylord Opryland Resort & Convention Center.
Editor’s note: This story has been updated to reflect the victim is male. Nashville fire officials initially said the victim was female.
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