US Sees Continued Shootings Across Various Locations Over the Weekend

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[Asia Economy Reporter Kwon Jae-hee] On the weekend of the 24th (local time) in the United States, shooting incidents occurred in various places.

On this day, in Nashville, the capital of Tennessee, NBC reported that around midnight, a police officer shot and killed a man who charged at him wielding butcher knives.

According to the Metropolitan Nashville Police, Officer Christopher Royer was patrolling in his police car as usual when he spotted a vehicle with a registered license plate in front of another car and stopped it.

The driver cooperated and stopped the car, but another man riding as a passenger jumped out holding two butcher knives.

According to the released body camera footage (a camera attached to the chest or shoulder of officers during field operations), the man tried to get into the empty police car and shouted at the armed officer, "What are you doing?"

Officer Royer repeatedly shouted for the man to put down the knives, saying he did not want to shoot, but when the man charged at him with the knives, he fired three shots. The man collapsed in the middle of the street after being shot and was taken to the hospital but died.

The Tennessee Bureau of Investigation and the local prosecutor's office are investigating the shooting incident.

In New Orleans, Louisiana, at 1:16 a.m. on the same day, a shooting occurred on Bourbon Street in the French Quarter, a famous tourist area, injuring five people.

All were reportedly shot, but the police stated that none were in critical condition. Four of them were taken to the hospital, and one was treated at the scene and then sent home.

The police are pursuing the suspect.

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