1 Arrested In Wednesday's City-Crossing Crime Spree

NASHVILLE, TN -- Using a helicopter, Metro Police tracked the SUV allegedly connected to an early Wednesday morning city-crossing crime spree, arresting a teenager said to be involved in the series of robberies and shootings.

MNPD officials say the chopper's crew saw the silver Honda SUV described by some of the victims of Wednesday morning's incidents Wednesday afternoon. The 16-year-old driving the SUV bailed out of it at 19th Avenue North and Britt Place and was arrested shortly thereafter near some railroad tracks. Investigators say they also found an AR-15 inside the vehicle.

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The teen is allegedly one of the four or five people involved in the following hold-ups from Wednesday morning:

• At 2:30 a.m. on South Nashville's Glastonbury Road, a woman was robbed at gunpoint outside an apartment complex by three men in gray hooded sweatshirts. The woman told police that after the men took her belongs, they fled in a silver SUV driven by a woman.
• At 2:41 a.m., a man reported that he was robbed at gunpoint by two men in hoodies in the 800 block of Murfreesboro Pike, about three miles from the Glastonbury Road stick-up.
• At 3:15 a.m., officers were called to the Terrace Park Townhomes on Elm Hill Pike - about seven miles east of the Murfreesboro Pike robbery - where a man said he was robbed at gunpoint in the parking lot by three men, who investigators say match the description of the group in the Glastonbury Road robbery.
• At 3:30 a.m., in the 1100 block of Second Avenue North in Germantown, a man was found inside a car, shot in the torso. Witnesses told police the car was hit by a silver SUV and then a man wearing a gray or blue hoodie got out of the SUV and robbed and shot the victim, who is in "extremely critical condition" at Vanderbilt University Medical Center.

The others involved in the crimes are still at-large, police said.

Photos via Metro Nashville Police