Police said the shooting ought to remind suspects that robbery can be adangerous business.
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Clerk opens fire during attempted holdup By SHEILA BURKE
Staff Writer
Two teens are accused of working with a Nashville man suspected of committing his second armed robbery of the evening during which he was shot by a store clerk Thursday night, police said yesterday.
Metro police have charged Larry Goldthreate Jr., 18, 1019-B Meridian
St., and Kanitha Barnes, 17, 3307 Chesapeake Circle, with two counts of
aggravated robbery and one count of attempted aggravated robbery.
The two were arrested after James Edward Bassham, 21, 3625 Village
Trail, was taken to Vanderbilt University Medical Center with multiple
gunshot wounds to his head and face.
Bassham will face similar charges, police said, when he is released from
the hospital. Police said Bassham is suspected of entering the Discount
Tobacco Outlet at 3006 Dickerson Pike about 8:30 p.m. with a gun drawn
and a bandana over his face. As the robber was ordering a customer to
lie on the floor, clerk Rodney Busby, 41, got a .40 caliber
semi-automatic pistol and opened fire, police said.
The robber fell but got up and ran out the door. Police said he sped
away in a red Jeep Cherokee carrying Goldthreate and Barnes.
Barnes is accused of dropping off both the wounded man and Goldthreate
at Goldthreate’s Meridian Street home. When police and an ambulance
arrived there, Goldthreate initially told officers that Bassham had been
shot in a public housing development, authorities said.
Later, police said, Goldthreate admitted the shooting occurred during a
robbery and that he and Barnes were also involved. Barnes was picked up
at her home later.
Police said the three are accused of holding up an adult bookstore
earlier in the evening.
A robber wearing a bandana had walked into the Purple Onion bookstore,
2702 Dickerson Pike about 8 p.m. He pointed a pistol at the clerk,
demanded money and two cases of DVDs, then ran from the store after
getting the cash and merchandise, investigators said.
Police said the shooting ought to remind suspects that robbery can be adangerous business.
”In this day and age, robbery suspects never know which intended victim might be armed,” Metro police spokesman Don Aaron said.
