A tourist visiting Nashville from Los Angeles took his final breaths in the arms of complete strangers early Monday morning, after being shot in the chest during an attempted armed robbery.
Teddy Grasset and his friend Larry Niehues were walking to get a ride back to their motel around midnight on Sunday, when a Chevy Impala with two men inside pulled up to them and opened fire.
The men were walking on 4th Avenue South, next to the Country Music Hall of Fame when the shooting happened. Witnesses quickly jumped in to help after hearing gunfire.
"I said 'find the wound, put pressure on it and keep his chin up!'" recalled Allison Dugas who shared her experience on Facebook Monday.
"His pupils dilate and I’m talking to him the entire time. Stay with me honey, wake up, come on don’t go. And he gasps again and stops breathing," the 27-year-old Army Veteran said.
Dugas said nearly a half dozen people worked frantically to administer CPR to Teddy Grasset as he laid wounded on the sidewalk.
"I couldn’t tell if he was hit in the heart or not but I knew it was dead center in the chest. I don’t think he was in pain, I don’t think he was scared," she said about Grasset's final moments.
Metro Police had made no arrests and believe the shooting was random.
"These people turned to violence, they deserve to be punished," Dugas added.
Anyone with information is asked to call Crime Stoppers at 615-74-CRIME
