Bar employees assaulted in East Nashville

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WKRN) — Multiple employees and Metro officers were assaulted at a business in East Nashville Tuesday evening.

Officers were called to a bar undergoing renovations in the 600 block of Gallatin Avenue around 6 p.m. for reports of a disorderly person.

Three employees told officers a man entered the bar and began loading liquor bottles into his backpack. When they confronted the man, later identified as 26-year-old Mario Stewart, he began throwing bottles at them, according to court documents.

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Stewart reportedly punched one employee in the face/head and hurt his foot while another suffered an injury to his hand. Metro police reported Stewart grabbed a wallet off the bar that contained $150 in cash and ran away…

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