Metro Nashville SWAT officer Joshua Baney, a 12-year veteran, shot Jason William Sexton, 54, three times on Cheshire Drive Saturday after Sexton stood outside his Hyundai with a sword.
It started over unpaid coffee at the Shell on Charlotte Avenue at 8 a.m. Sexton left, then came back with a full-size sword. The clerk locked him out, and Sexton yelled, "Come outside now, I'll kill you." MNPD took a felony warrant for aggravated assault, a threat to kill someone with a weapon.
A relative later called 911 and said the family believed he was a danger, pointing to Instagram videos where he showed the sword. A police helicopter picked up the Hyundai at a car wash on Dickerson Pike and followed him onto Cheshire Drive, where patrol spent more than an hour trying to talk him into putting it down. A 26-year-old woman in the back seat told officers she was being held against her will.
Baney had been sent to block the car with his truck. Sexton died at Skyline. The woman was not hurt. Chief John Drake pulled Baney's police authority while TBI works the case for the DA.