Crime & Safety
A Molotov Cocktail In Antioch?
Metro Police believe a truck may have been hit by a failed Molotov cocktail in Antioch late Tuesday night.
ANTIOCH, TN — Metro Police believe a truck may have been hit by a dud Molotov cocktail in Antioch late Tuesday.
Around 11 p.m. Tuesday, a truck driving in the 2700 block of Murfreesboro Pike, near Bell Road, was struck by a glass container and that another bottle broke on the road nearby.
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Neither device ignited, but investigators are considering the possibility that both were some version of the improvised grenade made with a bottle.
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