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Nashville residents suffering from a rash of negritude
Armed boons terrorize area residents
Four teenagers are in custody charged with robbing two men in separate incidents early this morning in downtown Nashville.
The first victim was walking on Charlotte Avenue near 5th Avenue North at 4 a.m. when he was approached by Jonathan Ewing, 19, who robbed him at gunpoint. Ewing fled in a blue 4-door Mercury Marquis driven by Brien Kelley, 18. Carson Roland, Jr., and William Carter, both 19, were also passengers in the car. Moments later, a second man was robbed at gunpoint on Charlotte Avenue.
Central Precinct Flex officers stopped the suspect car a short time later on James Robertson Parkway at Rosa L. Parks Boulevard. All four suspects were taken i
nto custody without incident. During interviews, all four teens admitted to the robbery. Recovered from the getaway Marquis were four handguns and a shotgun.
Ewing, of Seven Mile Court, Kelley, of 29th Avenue North, Roland, of Kings Circle, and Carter, of Kentucky Avenue, are each charged with two counts of aggravated robbery.
Armed boons terrorize area residents
Four teenagers are in custody charged with robbing two men in separate incidents early this morning in downtown Nashville.
The first victim was walking on Charlotte Avenue near 5th Avenue North at 4 a.m. when he was approached by Jonathan Ewing, 19, who robbed him at gunpoint. Ewing fled in a blue 4-door Mercury Marquis driven by Brien Kelley, 18. Carson Roland, Jr., and William Carter, both 19, were also passengers in the car. Moments later, a second man was robbed at gunpoint on Charlotte Avenue.
Central Precinct Flex officers stopped the suspect car a short time later on James Robertson Parkway at Rosa L. Parks Boulevard. All four suspects were taken i
nto custody without incident. During interviews, all four teens admitted to the robbery. Recovered from the getaway Marquis were four handguns and a shotgun.
Ewing, of Seven Mile Court, Kelley, of 29th Avenue North, Roland, of Kings Circle, and Carter, of Kentucky Avenue, are each charged with two counts of aggravated robbery.