Police and first-responders are at the scene of the shooting in a nursing home courtyard in Dickson on Monday. A man shot and killed his mother, then turned the gun on himself. / JamesA.BendallA man shot and killed his mother, then turned the gun on himself Monday afternoon at a local nursing home.
Dickson Police Detective Chad Fussell explained Gary Hotvedt, 60, of Charlotte, visited his mother Eileen Hotvedt, 86, at Dickson Healthcare on 901 N. Charlotte St. in Dickson.
Gary took his mother for a walk around 3:50 p.m. in the nursing home’s courtyard, behind the facility’s main entrance just off North Charlotte Street and adjacent to the facility’s chapel.
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