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  • Officer involved shooting occured on Friday Jan 9th 2015
    Updated On: Jan 09, 2015

    January 9, 2015

    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

              Armed robbery suspect Andre Maurice Dentley is recovering from non-critical gunshot wounds received after he pointed his pistol at a Metro police officer minutes after taking part in two East Nashville grocery store holdups this morning.

              Dentley, 23, of Forest Ridge Drive, received wounds to his jaw and leg as he bailed from a car with gun drawn near the intersection of N. 2nd & Cleveland Streets.

              One of Dentley’s two accomplices, convicted armed robber and parolee James Inman Taylor, 29, tried to flee from police, but was apprehended a short distance away on Joseph Avenue.  A third accomplice got away.  Detectives are working to confirm his identity.

              Dentley, Taylor and the third suspect, at least two of them armed with pistols, robbed the Piggly Wiggly grocery store at 3611 Gallatin Pike at 7:10 a.m.  They then headed to the Piggly Wiggly grocery store at 2317 Dickerson Pike and robbed it.  Retired Metro police officer Charles Drew happened to be in a parking lot adjacent to the Dickerson Pike grocery store.  He thought that the three suspects seemed suspicious as they returned to their vehicle.  Drew learned that a robbery had taken place and for a short time followed the suspect car, providing its description and license plate to the Emergency Communications Center.

              East Precinct Flex Officers Barry Demonbreun, a 13-year MNPD veteran, & Josh Robertson, an 8-year MNPD veteran, were riding together and spotted the getaway car on Dickerson Pike at Cleveland Street.  They confirmed the license plate number and attempted to stop the vehicle at Dickerson & Hancock Streets.  The officers pursued the car for a few blocks before it clipped another vehicle in the intersection of N. 2nd & Cleveland Streets.  It traveled a short distance on N. 2nd Street before coming to a stop.  The three robbers bailed out of the vehicle as Officers Demonbreun and Robertson got out of their police car.  As Dentley exited through the front passenger window of the getaway car, he pointed a semi-automatic pistol at Demonbreun, who, believing he was in imminent danger of being shot, fired on Dentley.  Dentley went to the ground.  Other officers tended to him as Officer Demonbreun engaged in a foot chase with Taylor, who was apprehended a short distance away in the 900 block of Joseph Avenue.

              Three suspect guns were recovered, along with a bank bag from Piggly Wiggly.

              Taylor registered with the Metropolitan Police Department as an ex-convict and parolee on April 27, 2014.  He received an effective 20-year sentence in 2007 for multiple armed robbery convictions.

              Dentley was issued a misdemeanor citation last month for possessing a weapon while intoxicated.  He has prior convictions for vandalism and driving without a license.

              Detectives are working to determine whether Taylor and Dentley have been involved in other business robberies.  The FBI’s Violent Crimes Task Force is looking at whether their crimes have violated federal law.

              Officer Demonbreun, age 41, is on routine administrative assignment while the shooting is investigated.


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