NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WSMV) - Two people are in custody after a robbery attempt at a discount market in North Nashville ended in gunfire on Wednesday.
According to the arrest affidavit from the Metro Nashville Police Department, 24-year-old Tonisha Braden was caught attempting to steal items from the Family Dollar on Jefferson Street late Wednesday morning. When the store’s assistant manager confronted her, Braden threw a metal pole at her, and then waived a box cutter at another person in the store who tried to intervene, according to the affidavit.
Witnesses told police that Braden then fled the scene with her fiancé, 28-year-old Cameron Tuck, in his black Nissan Rogue. While they were reversing out of the parking lot, Tuck fired multiple shots into the building before driving away, the affidavit states.
MNPD officers caught up with the Nissan Rogue at Walgreens on Rosa L. Parks Boulevard., less than half a mile away, and took both Braden and Tuck into custody.
Officers were able to confirm the witnesses’ accounts of what happened through surveillance footage, according to the affidavit. Braden also admitted to throwing a pole at the employee and waiving a box cutter inside the store, police said. She is charged with aggravated assault with a deadly weapon, and two counts of violating probation.
Tuck faces multiple aggravated assault with a deadly weapon charges, after opening fire at the store with his pistol, according to the report. Additionally, he is charged with vandalism, felony gun possession, and driving on a suspended license.
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