Suspect shot by police in Germantown after pulling gun on officers

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Metro police shot a fugitive along busy Germantown streets late Thursday morning after investigators say he took his wife hostage at gunpoint and later pulled a gun on officers.

It marked the first officer-involved shooting in Nashville since November 2015.

No police were injured in the 9:45 a.m. shooting and the suspect, identified by police as 41-year-old Adrian Dawn Robinson, is expected to survive.

Metro police spokesman Don Aaron said Robinson, wanted on outstanding warrants for auto burglary, fraudulent use of a credit card and theft, was shot in the arm and hand after he crashed a car near the intersection of Jefferson Street and Sixth Avenue.

The melee began about 8:30 a.m. when East Precinct Flex Unit officers drove through the Cumberland Inn parking lot at 150 W. Trinity Lane and spotted a silver, older-model Lexus with a stolen New York license plate.

Using the Vehicle Identification Number, Aaron said, police linked the Lexus to Robinson, of Nashville, and his 40-year-old wife, Althea, also wanted on the same felony warrants.

When officers knocked on their motel room door with the intent of arresting the Robinsons, Aaron said, the motel room door opened and Adrian Robinson, grabbed his wife, held a gun to her and pulled her to the restroom.

The officers retreated believing they had witnessed the beginning of a hostage situation, and after retreating, reported that they thought they had been shot at through the motel room window after the glass suddenly shattered.

Police then deployed a nearby spike strip in the event Robinson attempted to flee.

Robinson made it to the Lexus holding a gun to his wife and drove from the parking lot, puncturing the tires on the car as he drove over the spike strip.  He then took police on a low-speed pursuit onto Interstate-65 while throwing objects out of the window.

Eventually the vehicle exited the interstate onto Dickerson Pike where he stopped at a transmission shop and Althea Robinson got out.

Investigators say she was taken into custody after she walked to a car on the lot and attempted to get in to it.

Meanwhile her husband made it to Jefferson Street in the car, and about 10 a.m., after exiting the Jefferson Street Bridge westbound, Robinson collided with an SUV at the 5th Avenue North intersection, disabling the Lexus and pushing it into the 6th Avenue North intersection.

Despite officer commands, Aaron said, Robinson got out of the car with a gun in his hand and refused to drop a gun. That's when three officers opened fire on Robinson striking him twice. After he was hit, police say he got back into the Lexus, refused commands to get out, and lit a cigarette.

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