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MTA Bus Station Shooting Suspect Arrested

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Officers have arrested the suspect named in the shooting of four people at Nashville's MTA Music City Central bus station.

Police named 16-year-old Demarcus Amos as a suspect in the case the day after the shooting.

Officials said Amos confessed to the shooting, and said that Chatman, an acquaintance of his, was the intended target.

The shooting happened Monday afternoon. Officers said it took place on the top floor near the escalator inside the MTA station.

Javious Chatman, 18, was critically injured when he was shot in the abdomen. The three other victims, Nathaniel Webb and Jonathan Stoner, both 16, and Jalen Jeffries, 17, suffered non-life threatening injuries. Police said they suffered graze wounds. 

All of the victims were taken to Vanderbilt University Medical Center.