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By: TMP Reports

Posted: Wednesday, December 23, 2009 3:14 pm

A man was shot in the right side when he declined to give a man a cigarette about 11:30 p.m. Tuesday on East Lokey Street, Murfreesboro Police reported.

Victim Marion Alan Baker, 26, of East Vine Street, obtained treatment at Middle Tennessee Medical Center before being transferred to Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville, Officer Brad Premo reported.

“Baker was having trouble talking due to his pain and medication,” Premo reported. “He was able to state that he was on East Lokey between North Academy and the preschool when he was shot.”

He and his brother, Anthony Jackson, parked in front of a friend’s house and exited the vehicle. A man approached Baker and asked for a cigarette.

“Baker would not give the subject a cigarette, at which point the subject pulled out a silver handgun and shot Mr. Baker,” Premo reported.

Detectives searched the area for evidence but could not find anything.

People who have information about the shooting may call the Criminal Investigations Division at 893-2717 or Crime Stoppers at 893-STOP between 8 a.m. and 4:30 p.m. Monday through Friday.

In another shooting, Detective Ed Gorham charged suspect Dezmon X. Allen, 19, of Saddlebrook Drive with seven counts of reckless endangerment after he was accused of firing a round Monday through a door of an apartment with seven people inside. No one was injured.

The seven victims accused Allen of assaulting two women before going outside the apartment on North Rutherford Boulevard, Gorham reported. When he attempted to come back inside, they blocked the door.

“They stated Mr. Allen kicked the door several times and when he stopped kicking the door, a shot was fired through the door,” Gorham reported.

Gorham recovered a shell casing outside the door and a spent round in the wall of the laundry room.

Patrol officers located him and brought him to the police department where Gorham interviewed him before charging him. Allen was booked into Rutherford County Adult Detention Center where a hearing was set Jan. 11.

Tagged under Marion Baker, reckless endangerment

Member Opinions:

By: shotgun on 12/23/09
goodness, what is it coming to?

By: SocEtTuem on 12/23/09
Anbother good reason to increase police presence in Murfreesboro's less than stellar neighborhoods. It isn't like it is a mystery where most of these incidents take place.

By: koolaidkid on 12/23/09
This is the reason I have pulled my daughter out of MTSU ,until this city can get more officers in the troubled area's it's just going to keep going down hill .I know many of her friend are choosing to go out of town or state for school so that they don't have to go to the "Ghetto College" , their words not mine.

By: daveman on 12/23/09
make up your mind SocEtTuem, one post you said the police were "keystone Kops" , cant find anyone, now you want more of them. sounds like you want it both ways.

By: lcrozone on 12/24/09
so, smoking really is a hazard to your health...

By: drnitemare on 12/25/09
I was listening to this on the scanner the night it happened. it was pretty interesting how they found the guy. The guy got a ride from the area and the one that gave him a ride ratted him out. They had the dogs after this guy and cops were everywhere. All i did was walk outside to see what all the noise was and the cops questioned me, lol. Scared the devil out of me too.

By: vdanr on 12/28/09
Hey koolaid!!!!!! It doesn't matter where your child goes to school because there seems to be some type of violence everywhere. And for you SocEtTuem, do you call Saddlebrook and North Rutherford "stellar neighborhoods"???
Face it people, violence is happening all over the city and not just the so called "stellar neighborhoods"!!