A man reportedly ambushed a Tennessee police officer when he responded to what turned out to be a fake call for help.
The suspect, 22-year-old Salman Mohamed, is believed to have shot Officer Brian Sherman late Tuesday night before ultimately killing himself.
According to local reports, the South Nashville officer was responding to a call about an active shooter situation just after 6:00 p.m. Tuesday. The caller claimed his brother had shot his mother and that shots were continuing to be fired inside the residence.
Sherman was met with gunfire as soon as he arrived at the scene, where he was shot in his upper left arm. While first responders were tending to the wounded officer, the gunman walked outside the house and onto the driveway, where he fatally shot himself with a rifle.
Police officers did not fire any of their weapons during the ordeal.
Don Aaron, a spokesperson for the Metropolitan Nashville Police Department, told reporters Tuesday night it’s “clear” the call about an active shooter situation “was a ruse” to lure police officers to the home.
“No one else in the home was injured,” he said. “Inside the home at the time were [the suspect’s] mother and three siblings. None of those persons was hurt.”
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Aaron went on to explain that the danger for police officers has seemingly increased over the last several weeks, a trend he described as “very concerning.”
Sherman, for his part, was transported to Vanderbilt University Medical Center, where he was treated for his injuries and released later that night. While he was in the hospital, dozens of police officers waited outside as a sign of solidarity with Sherman.
The incident in Nashville comes on the heels of a viral TikTok post from a Georgia police officer delivering an impassioned speech about all the anti-police rhetoric in mainstream culture today.
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“I wake up every morning and kiss my family goodbye, knowing that there’s a possibility I won’t come home,” said Major Kelvin Dingle. “I am tired of every time I wake up in the morning, there’s someone polarizing the fact that maybe law enforcement is just not a good thing. All of us are not bad. I am not as they are. Most of us are not.”
“There are bad people in every career,” he added emotionally. “I am so [expletive] tired, tired, tired. I’m so tired. I give everything. I give everything. I’m tired.”
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Dingle, a retired U.S. Marine, appeared on Fox News this week to explain why he made the video.
He told the hosts of “Fox & Friends” he is saddened by the way police are treated in the current cultural climate, saying he made the video as he was riding home one day, “thinking in regards to everything and now it’s just different.”
“I’m driving next to people and people are just frowning at me,” Dingle said. “People are purposefully doing things to get my attention. They’re flipping me off.”
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The officer went on to say that most cops are “good-hearted people that want to make a difference,” adding, “My heart was broken because of the things that I saw in just traveling home to my family.”
“It wasn’t always that way,” he said. “It used to be waves. It used to be smiles. It used to be someone saluting you. … The last time I saw a salute? I have a military background — I’m a Marine — that means the world to me. And it’s not happening now.”