Plans for mass shooting in Chattanooga, Tennessee office building ‘failed,’ police say

An active shooter threat in Tennessee was neutralized Monday, with police reporting that the person shot and killed themselves before they could execute a potential mass shooting event in a Chattanooga office park.

Sgt. Victor Miller, a Chattanooga Police public information officer, said at a press conference that “a shooter was inside the building attempting to execute a plan,” and that it had failed.

“We found that he shot himself and he is deceased,” said Miller, in the city of 185,000 located about 130 miles southeast of Nashville.

Police responded to reports of an “active shooter situation” at an office building early Monday afternoon, according to a department Facebook post.

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