Gun Fire Rings Out in Several Neighborhoods

Oct 05, 2017 at 12:19 pm by bryan


Murfreesboro Police have been busy answer several instances of shots being fired in area neighborhoods.

Officer Jarrod Davis reports being called to the 400 block of Forrest Street just before 5 o'clock Thursday morning. The resident stated as she was getting ready for work, she heard three gun shots. One of them entered her home into a bedroom. After further investigation, Officer Davis determined a tree outside the home was struck three times. Detectives have taken over the investigation.

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Just after 7:30 Wednesday night, Officer Nathan Corwin was called to The Pointe on North Tennessee Boulevard on a report of shots fired. Two shell casings were discovered along with a pool of blood. No victims or suspects are known at this point and the St. Thomas Rutherford emergency room was notified to be on the lookout for someone with a gun shot wound.

Later Wednesday, just after 11pm, Officer Cody Shanabarger reports being called to the 16-hundred block of Sulpher Springs Road for possible gun fire. A witness reported hearing about six shots in front of his residence. The officer discovered multiple shell casings in the roadway in front of the home. The witness reported seeing a white male with a white t-shirt running from the area around the same time. Ten 9mm casings were recovered from the scene and sent to the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation for analysis.

SOURCE: MPD Incident Reports 17-21043, 17-21029, 17-21039

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