Mark Capps, a Grammy-winning recording engineer who had worked in the Nashville music scene for quite a long time, was shot and killed by police Thursday evening in Nashville.
A representative said that he was killed by an individual from the Specialized squad after he pointed a firearm in his entryway.
This occurred as police were answering a circumstance where Capps was said to have held his significant other and grown-up stepdaughter at gunpoint.
Many individuals in the neighborhood music scene were stunned by the passing. Capps came from a notable family in Nashville.
His dad, Jimmy Capps, was a popular meeting player, Terrific Ole Opry guitarist, and individual from the Performers Lobby of Notoriety.
Jimmy Capps died in 2020. Capps was shot and killed only two days after his brother died, as his web-based entertainment posts showed.
The Metropolitan Nashville Police Division posted film from a body camera of the shooting on Thursday night.
The external glass entryway of the house makes it hard to see what Capps was doing when he was shot, so it’s difficult to determine what he was doing.
The firearm police say he was holding when he was shot is displayed in a still photograph on the police office’s video.
At the hour of his passing, Capps, who was 54, was on the run for irritated attack and exasperated capturing. Metro Police representative Wear Aaron let columnists know that at around 3 a.m., Capps constrained his 60-year-old spouse and 23-year-old stepdaughter into their family room with a firearm and let them know he would kill them in the event that they called the police.
Here’s Ring camera footage a neighbor gave me which caught SWAT arriving at 4x Grammy-winner Mark Capps Hermitage home on Thursday. @WKRN pic.twitter.com/gwEud79TLp
— Peyton Kennedy (@peytonTVkennedy) January 6, 2023
They were exceptionally frightened of him and how he was treating them by not letting them go. Police say that the two ladies moved away after he nodded off around day break.
They went to the Isolation region to document a report. After the warrants were given at 1:55 p.m., the Specialized squad pursued him and killed him.
A discography on Capps’ site shows that, starting around 1987, he has worked with nation and gospel specialists including Alabama, the Dixie Chicks, Neil Precious stone, Amy Award, Michael W. Smith, Creeks and Dunn, Barry Manilow, Chris Youthful, Aaron Tippin, Conway Twitty, Joe Diffie, the Oak Edge Young men, Big and Rich, the Gaither Vocal Band, John Michael Montgomery, Kenny Rogers, Donna Summer, the Free thinkers, Anita Cochran, Kenny Loggins, Olivia Newton-John and the Isaacs, among others.
The Recording Institute’s site shows that from 2005 to 2008, he won a Grammy for best polka collection with the gathering Jimmy Sturr and His Symphony.
“Soon after the capture warrants were given, Smack was getting ready in the occasion he blockaded himself inside,” Aaron told journalists, per News Channel 5.
“He came to the entryway with a weapon close by. By then, he was lethally shot. We have since realized there were cameras checking the beyond the home.
He might have all around seen them outside the home. They were in Smack gear and obviously marked to him as individuals from the police division.”
The Nashville police posted a video of the shooting, which you can see underneath, alongside remarks from Aaron. The upsetting video cut is just for individuals beyond 18 years old.
Grammy Award-winning recording engineer Mark Capps was shot dead by SWAT officers after he allegedly held his 60-year-old wife and 23-year-old stepdaughter hostage at gunpoint at his home in suburban Nashville, Tennessee. https://t.co/LHUKJaITiP pic.twitter.com/gZ3731gwMY
— 48 Hours (@48hours) January 6, 2023
It shows an official remaining external a glass screen entryway while within entryway opens and an individual in nightgown should be visible.
The official hollers “Show me your hands!” just before he begins shooting, and he says it again when he opens the wrecked entryway. As the officials stroll in, they can see that an “It’s a brilliant life” Christmas embellishment is shaking to and fro within entryway. Aaron closes the YouTube cut by saying that an examination will be finished to ensure that the officials made the best choice.
In his video proclamation, the representative for the Nashville Police Office gives a larger number of subtleties than everything that columnists were said to before in the day. Aaron says in the YouTube video that Capps’ better half and stepdaughter advised police that he had taken steps to kill them and that assuming the police appeared, he would likewise shoot them.
Two days before the mishap that killed him, Capps had recently covered his brother. Yesterday, Capps’ last open Facebook post said, “No words.
Tear Jeffery Allen Capps, Dec 31, 1967 – Jan 03, 2023,” close by an undated photo of himself and his brother remaining before their dad’s grave…