Nashville disciplines police officer who fired last in fatal highway standoff

Nine officers fired on Landon Eastep, who was holding a box cutter and is estimated to have been shot 30 times

The Nashville police chief has stripped an officer of policing authority after he fired the final two shots to end a fatal interstate highway standoff in which nine officers opened fire on a man holding a box cutter.

During the encounter on Thursday, officers exhorted Landon Eastep to surrender while they kept their guns drawn. They fatally shot him when he pulled a shiny object from his pocket and pointed it as if ready to shoot. It was not a gun.