NASHVILLE, Tenn. — West Precinct detectives have charged 3 teenagers with aggravated robbery for Tuesday night’s carjacking of a 32-year-old woman who is five months pregnant.
Lamarsha McKnight, 17, Taveonne Norbitt, 16, and Lamonte Westbrooks, 15, were taken into custody after they bailed from the victim’s Chevrolet Equinox SUV at 14th Avenue North & Jackson Street as an MNPD helicopter crew watched from above. Ground units from the Juvenile Crime Task Force and the North Precinct made the arrests.
The victim told officers that she was traveling near Thunderbird Avenue and Westboro Drive in West Nashville when a teenage girl and two teenage boys walked out into the road and flagged her down. The girl asked to use the victim’s telephone. The victim let the three teens into her vehicle and drove to a church parking lot on Westboro Drive to allow her phone to be used. Once in the parking lot, the victim said one of the boys pulled out a pistol, demanded her belongings and said, “Don’t make me shoot you.” She said the other boy was also armed. The victim said she was ordered out of the Equinox and the teens fled in her SUV.
The victim ran to nearby market on Robertson Avenue and called police. Officers from the Juvenile Crime Task Force, West Precinct, North Precinct and the helicopter crew immediately began looking for the SUV.
No guns were found in the vehicle or with the teens when they were apprehended. All three were taken to juvenile detention.
Norbitt was arrested for aggravated robbery in December 2017 for robbing a woman of her purse on 15th Avenue South.
