Metro Nashville police and first responders were called to the intersection of Jefferson Street and 27th Avenue N. for reports of a shooting Saturday just after 5 p.m.
Police posted on Twitter around 6:30 p.m. that several people were injured and taken to area hospitals. The scene was safe, the post said.
Jefferson Street was closed from 26th to 28th avenues due to the investigation.
At 5:30 p.m., Tennessee State texted students warning of an active shooter off campus. TSU described the shooters as a black man wearing a green top and pants and a black man wearing a black and white top and jeans. They may have been traveling in a Ford Fusion.
Rauf Muhammad, 58, was cooking food for his business when he heard the shots erupt less than 50 yards away on Jefferson Street. He fell to the ground.
“Everyone is having fun, there’s music playing or something. Then you suddenly hear as if you are involved in a war somewhere,” Mohammed said.
He said police arrived on the scene within five minutes.
Jashawna Ruckur, a recent high school graduate, was also on the street when the shooting occurred.
“I was so close. I thought it was just fireworks,” Ruckur said. “And everyone was just running. And I started running – I almost fell.”
It’s homecoming week for TSU and Jefferson Street near campus was busier than normal on Saturday. That morning there was a parade in the streets and the football match started at 5pm, a few kilometers away, at Nissan Stadium.
This article originally appeared in Nashville Tennessean: Multiple injured in shooting on Jefferson Street in Nashville
