Nashville police are scouring the city for two men who may be responsible for a string of shootings that left three people dead and two others wounded.
In the fatalities, two men traveling in a dark-colored Chevrolet shot the victims as they were walking down a street or standing in a parking lot in the early morning, according to police. All three killings happened during robberies, authorities said.
"Officers throughout the city are on the lookout for two cold-blooded killers who obviously have no respect whatsoever for the sanctity of human life," said Don Aaron, Nashville Police Department spokesperson. No arrests had been made as of Monday.
On Friday, August 17, Bartley Teal, 33, and Jamie Sarrantonio, 30, were fatally shot about 3:30 a.m. in the parking lot of the Cobra bar on Gallatin Avenue in East Nashville, police said in a news release.
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On Tuesday, August 14, Kendall Rice, 31, was shot about 4 a.m. while walking along Alta Loma Road to catch a bus to work at Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Aaron said.
"According to a witness, two black men who appeared to be in their 30s, shot Rice and fled in a dark sedan," police said in a news release. "Rice died at the scene. His personal belongings were missing. "
Other robbery attempts happened August 14 that may be connected.
At 4:45 a.m., a man said he drove off after two men -- one armed with a rifle -- tried to rob him at the Rivergate Meadows Apartments on Rivergate Meadows Drive, police said. At 5:15 a.m., a man was shot and critically injured during a robbery attempt at an apartment complex on East Palestine Avenue.
These shootings may also be connected to the August 8 shooting of a woman in the Inglewood neighborhood, Aaron said.
The Tennessean newspaper said the woman, 39, was walking her dogs a little after midnight when two men driving by in a small, dark car shot her. She apparently was not robbed. Now she's recovering from gunshot wounds, the newspaper said.
One suspect is a black male with shoulder-length dreadlocks, Aaron said. The description of the other suspect is not detailed, he said.
A strong of attempted robberies this sloppy and brazen seems more like a lack of organized crime than some strategy of tension, but I'm not familiar with Nashville's subterranean politics.
TN has, like most any other state in the union, been getting hammered by drug overdoses:
https://www.tennessean.com/story/entert ... 044057002/
I know they had a city council member and the Mayor's son OD in the past few years in Nashville.