Police had been looking for suspects after tying a black SUV to the crime scene using surveillance video. It turned out that the car was a rental.
Channel 9′s Ken Lemon learned from police that a woman used a service to rent out her car to make some extra money. She got it back and had no idea the people who rented it used it to follow the ATM technician.
It was the slightest mark on the rented SUV that unraveled the murder case.
Someone spotted the SUV in Charlotte two days after Henderson was shot and killed. Then, the FBI used phone records to trace the suspects’ steps before and after the shooting, according to Kings Mountain police.
Police chief Gerald Childress said he called Henderson’s mother right after the arrests.
“I did want to try to get this done so I could have her some good news before Thanksgiving,” Childress said.
The FBI is trying to determine if these four men are connected to similar ATM robberies in the region
A felon is back behind bars for the third time this year for his connection to a shooting at an Antioch carwash that injured an innocent bystander, police said.
The incident took place on Friday, Nov. 22 at Dirty Car car wash in the 500 block of Bell Road, according to the Metro Nashville Police Department (MNPD).
Witnesses at the car wash reportedly told officers that two men exchanged gunfire before they both fled the scene in their vehicles.
MNPD said detectives reviewed surveillance video from the car wash and observed 41-year-old Ladon Ervin exit his Jeep Grand Cherokee and confront another man. The video reportedly captured Ervin punch the man, pull out a handgun and fired at the ground toward the man’s feet.
According to police, that’s when the other man is then seen pulling out a handgun, resulting in both him and Ervin firing shots at each other. Detectives said they are still working to identify the second gunman.
After fleeing the car wash, Ervin reportedly drove himself to Southern Hills Medical Center to be treated for a non-life-threatening gunshot wound. At the hospital, officers recovered a handgun and ammunition from his vehicle.
Meanwhile, a man who was approximately one quarter mile from the car wash was struck in the ear by shrapnel as he was walking on the sidewalk outside Extreme Cuts Barber Shop in the 400 block of Bell Road, authorities reported.
He allegedly told police that he heard a loud bang and realized that he had a graze wound to the ear. Detectives added they found a projectile fragment in the immediate vicinity from where the man was standing.
Police reported Ervin was released from the hospital on Tuesday, Nov. 26. He was charged with aggravated assault, reckless endangerment, and felon in possession of a weapon. Records show the 41-year-old is being held in Metro Jail on a $190,000 bond.
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