The gunman shot during a struggle with his 77-year-old robbery victim Sunday night has now been identified as the man who committed an armed carjacking on Claiborne & Lafayette Streets earlier that evening.
Additional arrest warrants charging Anthony Lyons, 25, with carjacking and two counts of attempted criminal homicide were issued last night. Lyons is recovering at a Nashville hospital from a serious gunshot wound to his leg. He will be booked on last night’s warrants and an additional charge of attempted especially aggravated robbery upon his discharge from the medical facility.
At 5:30 p.m. Sunday, a man identified as Lyons pulled a gun and ordered two persons out of a parked 1989 Pontiac Sunbird. As Lyons drove away, the victims ran after the car and yelled for Lyons to stop, prompting him to fire several shots.
Fifty minutes later, Lyons walked into the Stop-N-Shop Market at 5100 Indiana Avenue, put a gun to the stomach of 77-year-old customer Samuel Abernathy, and tried to rob him. Abernathy struggled with Lyons over the gun. It discharged and Lyons was hit in the leg.
Subsequent investigation led to the identification of Lyons’ brother, William Lyons, as the driver of the Sunbird as it fled the market. Lyons surrendered himself at the North Precinct Tuesday afternoon and has been charged with attempted especially aggravated robbery in connection with the market incident.
The Sunbird was recovered on Herman Street this afternoon.
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