NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WKRN) — Two military veterans nearly lost their lives after someone shot into their East Nashville home. They told News 2 they didn’t believe they were the intended targets.
Tashina Touma described the terrifying moments a stranger shot into their Inglewood home. However, she and her husband believe there was a mix-up. The incident first started on Feb. 14 when an unidentified man came to their door. With no one home, he got no answer and subsequently left; surveillance footage from that time showed him meeting with a woman nearby.
“It sounds like the woman does not live here, but has some sort of friend that they stay with c maybe a condo or two down,” Touma said. “She somehow had convinced him that she stays here.”
On Tuesday, the couple says the man returned. This time, he spoke through the couple’s camera, telling them who he was there to see and that someone had been texting him. Touma said they told him he had the wrong house and that they had not been messaging him.
Minutes later, he was seen on surveillance video running past the condominium with a gun, spraying bullets into the home where Touma and her husband were watching TV on the couch.
“They missed us by inches. We dropped off the couch and hit the ground,” Touma said.
“Three bullets came through the living room — two through the door, one through the window. One went all the way through to the kitchen and destroyed our stove.”
Their printer, a computer, several walls and other property were also struck by bullets. They estimated the cost of the damage at around $5,000.
“Both me and my husband are retired military, so this isn’t our first time being shot at,” Touma told News 2. “But being shot at in your own home is a completely different situation.”
Because the couple recently purchased the home, they said it was unlikely they would move.
“We’re going to be armed. We’re going to buy a gun this afternoon,” said Touma. “Our goal right now is to get this man’s face out there and get him caught because he’s going to kill somebody.”
According to the Metro Nashville Police Department (MNPD), the suspect used a semi-automatic pistol in the shooting. He reportedly fled the scene on foot towards Gallatin Pike and possibly got into a four-door gray sedan.
