MEMPHIS, Tenn — Thieves who took a pickup truck from a Midtown restaurant early Sunday morning didn’t make it very far after the owner of the vehicle decided to fight back.
The victim, who did not want to be identified, said he was at the Applebees on Union with a group of friends when someone in a pickup truck pushed his truck right off the lot.
“We were waiting on another friend to come, and he actually saw them pushing my truck out of the lot and called us inside and was like, ‘Hey, I think your truck is being pushed off the lot,” he said.
He said they all went outside, got into several other vehicles, and began looking for his 2022 Dodge Ram.
The victim said they found his truck about half a mile away in a neighborhood at Union Avenue and Edgewood Street. He said the suspects were trying to reprogram his vehicle when they got there, and when his friend pulled in front of his truck, someone opened fire.