Mitarius Boyd, 21, is accused of shooting a pregnant woman at a Nashville Walgreens while shoplifting. According to local reports, the shooting resulted in a premature delivery, and police have made no arrests as of Monday.
Mitarius Boyd was reportedly the team leader on April 12 when the horrific incident occurred. He shot Travonsha Ferguson, 34, while attempting to stop her from committing a theft, according to him.
According to WKRN , the worker witnessed the woman, who was seven months pregnant, and another individual steal items from the store and confronted them in what ended up being an exchange of mace and bullets.
According to the news station, the shooting happened around 8 p.m. in the parking lot of the drug store chain’s East Nashville location.
According to cops, the employee saw the two women load up a large bag and store cart with items from store shelves and then leave the store without paying.
He followed them into the parking lot and saw them unload the stolen items into a car trunk. As he approached the women, one of them allegedly pulled out a can of mace and sprayed him.
According to police, the employee then brandished his semi-automatic pistol and began shooting at the alleged shoplifters.
He shot the 34-year-old pregnant woman multiple times, the station reported. Mitarius Boyd reportedly told cops that he was afraid and didn’t know if either of the women were armed, according to the local outlet.
The women jumped into their car and sped off to the hospital. The second woman dropped off her injured, pregnant partner-in-crime at General Hospital and drove off, according to WKRN.
An ambulance then transferred the wounded shoplifter to Vanderbilt University Medical Center, where doctors performed an emergency C-section to cut out the 7-month-old baby — whom bullets miraculously missed.
Both the woman and her baby are in critical but stable condition.
The investigation is ongoing and there have been no arrests.