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CCA private prison escapee shoots police officer

A Nashville police officer was shot multiple times Thursday afternoon by a motorist he stopped along Interstate 40.

Two suspects were taken in custody shortly after the shooting. One of them is a Mississippi prison inmate who escaped from custody Thursday morning.

Nashville police spokesman Don Aaron identified the wounded officer as Sgt. Mark Chesnut, who was reported alert and talking to doctors at Vanderbilt University Medical Center shortly after the 1:20 p.m. shooting…

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