Wig Wearer Shoots Clerk In North Nashville Attempted Robbery

NASHVILLE, TN — A wig-wearing would-be robber shot a clerk at a North Nashville convenience store Sunday afternoon.

A witness said a a man in a wig, black shirt and white pants entered the Little Barn Market Discount Tobacco And Beer on the corner of Brick Church Pike and Ewing Street. (For more updates on this story and free news alerts for your neighborhood, sign up for your local Middle Tennessee Patch morning newsletter.)

After going to the beer coolers, he turned around, walked toward the clerk holding a gun wrapped in a rag, shooting the clerk in the right shoulder.

The would-be robber ran out of the store, down Ewing Drive and on to Anna Court, before disappearing into some nearby woods.

The investigation is ongoing.

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