A resident with a handgun pointed at his head initially resisted a robber’s demand for his wallet but tossed it under a neighbor’s tree during the holdup Friday morning off Old Nashville Highway, a sheriff’s deputy reported.
Victim James L. Miller of Braxton Bragg Drive returned home to find his door broken and a man inside his home, Deputy Edwin Fitzgerald reported. The suspect pointed a handgun at Miller outside his home and demanded his wallet.
“Why?” Miller asked the robber. “You will just shoot me anyway.”
“No I won’t,” the robber replied.
Miller tossed the wallet and ran into a neighbor’s garage and shut the door. He saw the robber drive away in a dark grey four-door Honda Civic with an airbrushed personalized license plate on the front.
The robber was described as a black man about 6-foot-2 to 6-foot-4 in his 40s with short hair.
A Ruger .357 Magnum was missing from Miller’s home.
About the same time, neighbor Jerry Thomas Weaver arrived home to notice someone broke into his home. He called 911. As he hung up, he heard Miller yelling, “He has a gun on me.”
Weaver spotted the robber leaving in the same Honda Civic.
Detective Steve Brown arrived to investigate. People who have information on the suspect may call Brown at 904-3052.
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