Grammy-winning recording engineer Mark Capps was shot and killed by a SWAT staff in Nashville on Thursday (January 5).
A spokesperson stated the producer was killed by a SWAT staff after brandishing a gun in his doorway, after police responded to an incident through which he allegedly held his spouse and stepdaughter captive at gunpoint, as Selection reviews.
He gained Grammys for Greatest Polka Album for 4 consecutive years, from 2005 to 2008, as detailed on the Recording Academy’s web site.
The producer, who was 54, had labored with artists together with Dixie Chicks, Amy Grant, Kenny Rogers and Neil Diamond, in keeping with his web site discography. He was the son of Grand Ole Opry guitarist and Musicians Corridor of Fame honouree Jimmy Capps, who died in 2020.
Officers are on the scene of a deadly police capturing at a house on Summit Run Place in Hermitage. A SWAT officer fired on an armed 54 12 months previous man who was wished on agg assault & agg kidnapping warrants involving his spouse & stepdaughter. They fled the house this morning. pic.twitter.com/xAbbmA3mhi
— Metro Nashville PD (@MNPDNashville) January 5, 2023
On Thursday, the Metropolitan Nashville Police Division posted physique digicam footage of the capturing. “Mark Capps, 54, who was wished on excellent aggravated kidnapping and aggravated assault costs, was fatally wounded by a SWAT officer Thursday afternoon after he out of the blue opened the entrance door of his residence armed with a pistol,” the video description reads.
A police spokesperson, Don Aaron, instructed reporters that Capps introduced his 60-year-old spouse and stepdaughter, 23, into the household room at gunpoint at 3am, and “instructed them in the event that they referred to as somebody, he would kill them”.
“They have been extraordinarily frightened by him and his actions towards them in not letting them go away.”
After Capps fell asleep, police stated the ladies escaped to file a report at Hermitage police precinct.
Aaron continued that “as three SWAT members tried to start work exterior the house, with out Capp seeing them, he opened the entrance door with pistol in hand” (through Unbiased).
He stated one officer yellow “present me your arms” earlier than he “deemed that Capps’s actions posed a right away, imminent menace and fired”, confirming that “Capps died on the scene”.
The producer’s loss of life got here two days after his older brother, Jeffrey Allen Capps, died final Tuesday (January 3).