Family Dollar Employee Shoots Shoplifter: Nashville Police

NASHVILLE, TN -- An employee at a North Nashville Family Dollar shot a would-be shoplifter Wednesday afternoon, Metro Police said.

According to an affidavit, Devereaux Evans, who was working at the Family Dollar on Jefferson Street, chased a man - who he saw stealing a pair of lighters - out of the store and into the street, where Evans shot him in the foot.

Evans admitted to the shooting, according to investigators, after surveillance footage showed him hiding the gun inside the store.

Tennessee law does not permit a self-defense argument for chasing an unarmed thief. Evans is charged with felony aggravated assault. The alleged shoplifter is hospitalized with non-life-threatening injuries and is likely to be charged with theft, police said.

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