Crime & Safety
Unusually Dressed Gunman Shoots Security Guard At West End Rite-Aid
An oddly dressed man shot and critically wounded an unarmed security guard at the West End Rite Aid early Monday.
NASHVILLE, TN — An unarmed security was critically injured when he was shot by an oddly dressed thief at a West End drug store Monday morning.
Metro Police said the man, pictured above, entered the Rite-Aid at the West End-Elliston Place flatiron with a bandanna on his face shortly before 4 a.m. He demanded money from a clerk and then shot the security guard in the chest as he fled.
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The suspect is a black man with dreadlocks.
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Officers from Vanderbilt University Police were first on the scene, arriving ahead of MNPD.
The security guard, a three-year employee of private security firm Cumberland Security, is at Vanderbilt University Medical Center.
Photo via Metro Nashville Police
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