Metro Nashville police charged Jacorey McIntosh with aggravated assault after a Greyhound station fight, and the guard who shot him is not charged.

The aggravated-assault count is the charge against McIntosh. It is not a ruling that the shots were lawful. WSMV says police and the district attorney have not finished that question. NewsChannel 5 spelled his first name Jacory. The department's release spells it Jacorey.

The Metro Nashville Police Department said that at 7:25 a.m. Sunday, Oct. 25, 2026, Jacorey McIntosh, 22, was shot by a security guard outside the Greyhound bus station after throwing hot coffee into the guard's face and attacking him. The department said he was recovering from wounds to his hip and leg and would be charged with felony aggravated assault when he left the hospital. An update on the same release said McIntosh, of Toxey, Alabama, was released from the hospital and booked into jail Sunday night, and that a judicial commissioner set bond at $10,000 on the aggravated assault charge. The department said security guard Douglas West, 39, had burns and contusions to his face and head when detectives interviewed him. West reported that he had told McIntosh to leave the station about 45 minutes earlier. Around 7:25 a.m., the department said, West was talking with a co-worker when McIntosh approached and, unprovoked, threw hot coffee at his face and began striking him. The department said West was knocked down twice, that McIntosh used one of West's firearm magazines that had fallen from his security vest to keep striking him in the head, and that West said McIntosh stated he was going to kill him. The co-worker is not named.

The department said a surveillance camera captured the incident. It said the footage shows McIntosh throw coffee at West, charge at him twice, get on top of him, and throw several punches, then shows West get up from the ground a second time and draw a gun. It said McIntosh is seen making a slight movement toward West again, which is when West began firing. WSMV reported Monday, Oct. 26, that the investigation is not over and that the case will receive a full staffing with the District Attorney's Office before a decision on whether West faces charges. WSMV reported the same ages, the same hip-and-leg wounds, the same Sunday-night booking, and the same $10,000 bond. WSMV reported West worked for STM Security and was at a shift change with another guard. WSMV reported police said no weapon was found on McIntosh and that the magazine used to hit West was recovered from the ground. NewsChannel 5, citing the department's release, spelled the name Jacory McIntosh and placed the station at 709 Rep. John Lewis Way S. FOX 17 reported the location as Rep. John Lewis Way South and reported the Sunday-night booking on the aggravated assault charge with a $10,000 bond. Jacory and Jacorey are not the same spelling. The department's release uses Jacorey.

WSMV reported the charging decision on West turns on Tennessee's self-defense standard for private security guards. The station quoted Vanderbilt law professor Christopher Slobogin, who said security guards are not state employees and are generally held to the same standard as private citizens: no duty to retreat, and force only proportionate to the threat. WSMV also quoted Greg Sanfilippo, a retired New York City police officer and vice president of Doyle Security Services, who said coffee thrown at a person, on its own, does not justify deadly force, and that the analysis changes if the assault continued and a metal magazine was used to strike the head. Sanfilippo told the station that sequence could support a self-defense claim and also said investigators should finish before anyone draws a conclusion. Those are interviews. They are not a finding by the district attorney. WSMV reported Metro police said they are continuing the investigation alongside the District Attorney's Office. McIntosh is the person charged. West is not, on the accounts those outlets published. All defendants are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law.