Another Nashville Hookah Bar Shooting Injures 1

NASHVILLE, TN -- One person was injured late Friday after someone allegedly fired a gun across Charlotte Pike and into a crowd outside a West Nashville hookah bar.

Metro Police said officers arrived at the Lebanon Nights hookah bar in the 6300 block of Charlotte Pike just before midnight Friday and were told that one person was hit by gunfire and driven to the hospital in a private vehicle.

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Witnesses reportedly told police that someone was firing a gun across Charlotte Pike and into a group of people outside the hookah bar. Investigators found several shell casings and damage to the hookah bar. The victim had non-life-threatening injuries and was being treated at Vanderbilt University Medical Center.

Though apparently unrelated, it is, at least, the eighth shooting at a Nashville-area hookah bar in the past 13 months:

• May 14, 2017: A man was killed in a shootout in the parking lot of the infamous and now-shuttered Cloud IX in Inglewood.
• Dec. 30, 2017: Jason McClain, 30, was shot and killed in Cloud IX's parking lot.
• Jan. 1, 2018: One person was injured in a shooting at Lebanon Nights on Charlotte Pike in West Nashville.
• Jan. 5, 2018: One person was injured in a shooting following a fight at Tarboosh in Midtown.
• Jan. 26, 2018: A man was shot and injured outside Arabian Palace.
• May 1, 2018: One person was killed and another injured in a shooting at Medusa on Church Street.
• May 11, 2018: One person was killed in an apparent parking lot dispute outside Arabian Palace.

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