US: Two Injured In Drive-By Shooting At Funeral Service Of Gun Violence Victim In Nashville

Two people were injured during a drive-by shooting after a funeral service in Nashville, US.

Some of the attendees of the funeral service carried guns and fired back at the car. 

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New Delhi: A drive-by shooting injured two people at a church in Nashville on Saturday, according to an AP report. They were walking out of the church with others after attending the funeral service of a woman who was fatally shot earlier this month. 

According to the Nashville Police Department spokesperson Don Aaron, the funeral service had just ended for 19-year-old Terriana Johnson. The hearse was parked outside the church and people were filing out of the church when the shots began. 

Currently, the police are on the lookout for a black late-model Honda Civic with a temporary tag, from which one or more shooters fired as the car passed by, hitting an 18-year-old woman in the leg and a 25-year-old man in the pelvis. The wounds were not fatal.

Some of the attendees of the funeral service carried guns and fired back at the car. 

The incident occurred before Johnson’s body was brought out, the burial was conducted later that afternoon, Aaron told the media. 

A 17-year-old who is charged with criminal homicide in Johnson’s fatal shooting that occurred on November 14, is still on the run and the authorities are still on the lookout for him. It is alleged that the teen opened fire on a car in which Johnson was riding after Johnson and the suspect’s sister were involved in a fight moments earlier.

According to AP, Aaron told the media that the shooting “appears to be some type of beef between two groups of people,” but not necessarily between members of the two families.

“This was just a brazen shooting,” Aaron told reporters.

“These persons have no regard for human life at all.”

(With Agency Inputs)