Memphis was shaken by a brazen mid-morning robbery on Wednesday when an armed suspect stormed into the EZ Pawn at 1410 Poplar Avenue. The Memphis Police were called into action at 10:28 a.m., according to a detailed report from the Memphis Police Department’s official website. Witness accounts describe a male suspect who casually scoped out the scene before returning with a gun, firing shots at staff and consumers alike, and announcing his nervous disposition.
Further details provided by the police point to a violent ordeal as the suspect, with revolver and wrench in hand, forcefully shattered a glass display to access jewelry. He didn’t stop there; cash was also a target. The man, with his plunder in tow, fled north on Garland Street. The horror of the moment still lingers, as do the descriptions of the perpetrator: a thin, dark-complexioned Black male, dressed in a camouflage mask with glasses, and a distinctively marked gray hoodie…