Surgeon at Tennessee clinic fatally shot by patient

One person is dead and another is detained after a shooting at a Collierville clinic Tuesday afternoon.

Collierville Police said a healthcare worker was fatally shot by a patient in an exam room at the Campbell Clinic on Poplar Avenue.

A witness who was in the building told WREG a patient had been threatening someone at the clinic for the past week prior to the shooting. She said he got in Tuesday with a gun and shot and killed the person.

Police said only two people were involved in the shooting and the suspect was apprehended outside the clinic five minutes after the shooting. The suspect has not been identified.

Read more: WREG (Memphis, TN)