Around 10:30 this past Thursday (12/22/16) night, Murfreesboro Police officers responded to a robbery of an individual. Officers located a suspect vehicle near I-24 in the Old Fort Parkway area. The officers confronted the suspect who ran from the police on foot. The suspect ran onto I-24 and was struck by a vehicle where he was killed.
Dead is 25 year old Jermaine Wade from Nashville. He was hit in the eastbound lane of exit 78 in Murfreesboro on I-24.
The Tennessee Highway Patrol is investigating the pedestrian verses vehicle accident while the Murfreesboro Police investigated the actual robbery.