Walgreens employee claims self-defense in shooting of pregnant woman workers say was caught shoplifting
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A woman who was seven-months pregnant was shot by a Walgreens employee in Nashville, Tennessee, this week after he suspected she had stolen cosmetics from its pharmacy, police said. Now, she and her newborn baby remain hospitalized after undergoing an emergency C-Section. A Walgreens team leader shot 24-year-old Travonsha Ferguson in the store's parking lot on Wednesday evening after he followed her out of the store when he was tipped off to the alleged shoplifting, Nashville police said in a news statement. Mitarius Boyd, 21, claims he fired his semi-automatic...
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