Crime & Safety
Masked Men Rob East Nashville, Joelton Markets
Police suspect the same pair of men robbed two stores 16 miles apart early Tuesday.
NASHVILLE, TN — The same two men are wanted in two early Tuesday morning robberies 16 miles and one hour apart .
The Z Mart on Gallatin Avenue in East Nashville was held up around 2 a.m. and the Tfuel on Eatons Creek Road in Joelton about one hour later. Detectives determined the suspects are identical after comparing surveillance footage. (For more updates on this story and free news alerts for your neighborhood, sign up for your local Middle Tennessee Patch morning newsletter.)
One man was wearing a light gray hoodie with a black hood and blue jeans and the other suspect, a maroon hoodie and black jeans. Both were wearing bandannas over their faces and both were armed.
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They were seen fleeing the Joelton location in a red Toyota Corolla missing a hubcap on the passenger side.
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