NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WKRN) — The location of the original Captain D’s restaurant in Donelson has closed its doors.
The first Captain D’s was founded in 1969 as Mr. D’s Seafood and Hamburgers by Raymond Danner, who co-owned the successful Shoney’s Restaurant franchise. The original restaurant was an A-frame building located on Lebanon Pike near Graylynn Drive.
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On Feb. 16, 1997, Captain D’s employee Sarah Jackson, 16, and manager, Steve Hampton, 25, were shot and killed by serial killer Paul Dennis Reid after he came to the restaurant and asked to apply for a job. Their bodies were discovered in the restaurant’s cooler.
There is a memorial marker to Jackson and Hampton in the parking lot in addition to a plaque inside the restaurant.
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Reid struck again at the McDonald’s in Hermitage a month later when he shot three people to death: Andrea Brown (17), Ronald Santiago (27), and Robert Sewell Jr. (23). A fourth employee was stabbed 17 times but miraculously survived…