Brentwood Walgreens Held Up By Surgical-Masked Man — Again

BRENTWOOD, TN — A man wearing a surgical mask attempted to rob the Brentwood Walgreens Wednesday in a crime that was almost a perfect facsimile of a stick-up at the pharmacy earlier this month.

But there were two big differences: Wednesday's attempt was unsuccessful and the would-be robber was someone entirely different, despite an identical preference in facial coverings.

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A heavyset, white man walked into the Franklin Road Walgreens shortly before 11 a.m. Wednesday in jeans, a blue hoodie, a ball cap and surgical mask, Brentwood Police said in a statement.

Just like in the April 3 robbery, the suspect passed a note to the pharmacist saying he was armed and, again exactly like the earlier robbery, never actually produced a weapon. This time, however, the pharmacist shut the security window and the suspect fled empty-handed.

Brentwood's assistant police chief told The Tennessean that in spite of the surgical mask and the almost-identical modus operandi, the suspects in the two cases are different, as the man in the first case was taller and thinner.

"I don't really know why both would have worn a surgical mask, unless it's something that's easy for them to get. Maybe it (doesn't) raise as much suspicion if you walk into a store with a surgical mask on as opposed to a ski mask," Assistant Chief Tommy Walsh told the newspaper.

No arrests have been made in either case.

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