3 Dead in the middle of the Bible Belt
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3 Fast Food Workers Killed in Tenn.
by VICKI BROWN Associated Press Writer
SMYRNA, Tenn. (AP) -- Three fast-food workers were found shot to death
Wednesday in an apparent robbery.
The shootings apparently happened after Captain D's closed at midnight, Sgt.
Scott Byers said.
The first body was found at about 2:30 a.m. in the driver's seat of a car
outside a BigK discount store behind the restaurant. Signs that the man
worked at Captain D's led police there, where the bodies of two more men
were found in a backroom cooler.
The victims' families met Wednesday morning with police and grief counselors. The victim's identities and details about the shootings were to
be released after all relatives were notified, Byers said.
Betty Marshall, a spokeswoman for Shoney's Inc., the parent company of
Captain D's, called the shootings ''a terrible tragedy.''
''We're all in a state of shock,'' she said. ''Our hearts go out to the
families and to our co-workers.''
Marshall would not discuss the security at the Captain D's or the company's
other restaurants, saying it might jeopardize the police investigation.
The restaurant is 20 miles southeast of Nashville along Interstate 24, in a
business district crowded with stores and restaurants.
Abe Hasan, owner of the BP Oil station next door to the Captain D's, said
police asked for the tapes from video cameras inside the store and at the
gas pumps for possible clues.
He said when he left the station at 11:30 p.m., ''I saw nothing unusual.''
The slayings reminded some onlookers of three deadly restaurant robberies
that occurred in the state in 1997.
''I was scared to death after the Paul Reid incidents,'' said Angie Ryman,
21, who works at a local McDonald's with her fiance. ''Today, we're going to
look for other jobs.''
Reid, a part-time cook, terrorized Middle Tennessee over three months in
1997, killing seven fast-food workers at three restaurants. Two victims
worked at a Captain D's in suburban Nashville.
The last of Reid's three trials was in May. He was convicted of all seven
murders and received seven death sentences, the most ever received in
Tennessee.
Also in May, five Wendy's employees in New York City were shot to death in a
robbery at the fast-food restaurant. Two others were wounded. Two men, He said when he left the station at 11:30 p.m., ''I saw nothing unusual.''
The slayings reminded some onlookers of three deadly restaurant robberies
that occurred in the state in 1997.
''I was scared to death after the Paul Reid incidents,'' said Angie Ryman,
21, who works at a local McDonald's with her fiance. ''Today, we're going to
look for other jobs.''
Reid, a part-time cook, terrorized Middle Tennessee over three months in
1997, killing seven fast-food workers at three restaurants. Two victims
worked at a Captain D's in suburban Nashville.
The last of Reid's three trials was in May. He was convicted of all seven
murders and received seven death sentences, the most ever received in
Tennessee.
Also in May, five Wendy's employees in New York City were shot to death in a
robbery at the fast-food restaurant. Two others were wounded. Two men, including a former employee, have been charged in the killings.
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Always willing to calculate my chances
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3 Fast Food Workers Killed in Tenn.
by VICKI BROWN Associated Press Writer
SMYRNA, Tenn. (AP) -- Three fast-food workers were found shot to death
Wednesday in an apparent robbery.
The shootings apparently happened after Captain D's closed at midnight, Sgt.
Scott Byers said.
The first body was found at about 2:30 a.m. in the driver's seat of a car
outside a BigK discount store behind the restaurant. Signs that the man
worked at Captain D's led police there, where the bodies of two more men
were found in a backroom cooler.
The victims' families met Wednesday morning with police and grief counselors. The victim's identities and details about the shootings were to
be released after all relatives were notified, Byers said.
Betty Marshall, a spokeswoman for Shoney's Inc., the parent company of
Captain D's, called the shootings ''a terrible tragedy.''
''We're all in a state of shock,'' she said. ''Our hearts go out to the
families and to our co-workers.''
Marshall would not discuss the security at the Captain D's or the company's
other restaurants, saying it might jeopardize the police investigation.
The restaurant is 20 miles southeast of Nashville along Interstate 24, in a
business district crowded with stores and restaurants.
Abe Hasan, owner of the BP Oil station next door to the Captain D's, said
police asked for the tapes from video cameras inside the store and at the
gas pumps for possible clues.
He said when he left the station at 11:30 p.m., ''I saw nothing unusual.''
The slayings reminded some onlookers of three deadly restaurant robberies
that occurred in the state in 1997.
''I was scared to death after the Paul Reid incidents,'' said Angie Ryman,
21, who works at a local McDonald's with her fiance. ''Today, we're going to
look for other jobs.''
Reid, a part-time cook, terrorized Middle Tennessee over three months in
1997, killing seven fast-food workers at three restaurants. Two victims
worked at a Captain D's in suburban Nashville.
The last of Reid's three trials was in May. He was convicted of all seven
murders and received seven death sentences, the most ever received in
Tennessee.
Also in May, five Wendy's employees in New York City were shot to death in a
robbery at the fast-food restaurant. Two others were wounded. Two men, He said when he left the station at 11:30 p.m., ''I saw nothing unusual.''
The slayings reminded some onlookers of three deadly restaurant robberies
that occurred in the state in 1997.
''I was scared to death after the Paul Reid incidents,'' said Angie Ryman,
21, who works at a local McDonald's with her fiance. ''Today, we're going to
look for other jobs.''
Reid, a part-time cook, terrorized Middle Tennessee over three months in
1997, killing seven fast-food workers at three restaurants. Two victims
worked at a Captain D's in suburban Nashville.
The last of Reid's three trials was in May. He was convicted of all seven
murders and received seven death sentences, the most ever received in
Tennessee.
Also in May, five Wendy's employees in New York City were shot to death in a
robbery at the fast-food restaurant. Two others were wounded. Two men, including a former employee, have been charged in the killings.
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Always willing to calculate my chances
