Police have detained a suspect in the shooting at the office of the local branch of the Fox television channel in the US city of Memphis, law enforcement officials say.
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“The suspect has been detained,” the city’s police department said on Twitter.
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The TV channel, for its part, informs that the suspect was detained two hours after he fired at the office and fled to a nearby restaurant. According to the channel, the attacker used an assault rifle, no one was injured in the incident, the employees returned to the office.
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According to the report, the suspect approached a TV station employee in the parking lot on Tuesday morning and showed him a weapon, the employee ended the conversation and left, and the suspect walked to the front of the building and fired one shot.