Murfreesboro Police responded to a shooting at the Victoria’s Secret in The Avenue on Medical Center Parkway at approximately 11:30 a.m. on Saturday.
Upon arrival, officers discovered that a witness, who was armed with a handgun, saw two men stealing from Victoria’s Secret. The witness confronted the perpetrators after the robbery, and the perpetrators fled to a waiting car that was driven by a third accomplice. The perpetrators attempted to flee the parking lot, and the witness shot one round at the vehicle. The fleeing vehicle hit two other cars while the perpetrators escaped the area. It is currently unknown if anyone in the car or parking lot was struck by the bullet that the witness fired.
The Criminal Investigation Division is currently investigating the incident. The suspect vehicle is a silver Nissan Sentra.
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I have a hard time fully comprehending this situation because I feel like there are two distinct arguments that can be made. On one hand, I do see where the man that pursued the robbers was coming from. I have never seen someone steal from a store but I feel that if I did I would also be prompted to take some kind of action, but having said that, the actions that I would take would be to speak to an employee in the store while the robbers were still there. It makes it seem like we are missing something from the story because why would the man approach the robbers after they were done with the robbery. The actions that this man chose to make instead were very severe. Opening fire in an area such as a mall is very risky and, in my opinion, not thought out at all. I am not advocating stealing but I can’t help but think that they were only taking something from Victoria’s Secret, is that really worth putting another person’s life at risk? In my opinion I think that the man that tried to stop the robbers did much more harm than the robbers themselves did.