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Police: Suspect wielding hatchet, gun dead at movie theater

(AP) -- A suspect wielding a hatchet, gun and pepper spray inside a Nashville-area movie theater died after exchanging gunshots with a SWAT team as he tried to escape through the theater's rear door,

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Aug 5, 2015, 8:40 PM

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