Man armed with hatchet shot dead at US cinema

A man armed with a hatchet and a pellet gun unleashed pepper spray at audience members inside a cinema before being shot dead by police as he tried to escape.

The attacker, Vincente David Montano, 29, of Nashville, was carrying two backpacks, one of which hung from his chest, and he wore a surgical mask, possibly to protect himself from the pepper spray he unleashed during the screening of Mad Max: Fury Road.