Good Guy with a Gun #29: Nashville, TN
Original incident: November 30, 2023. Some guys can't let go of an ex-girlfriend. Good thing she and her new boyfriend had firearms to fend this armed felon off when he broke in.
Starting with felonies in 2012, when he was 19, Damarquis Morehead developed a rap sheet filled with attempted robbery, theft, felon in possession of a firearm, resisting arrest, and other charges.
This is probably not a guy whom I’d like my daughter to date, but someone’s daughter did in fact become his girlfriend. At some point, she apparently realized her error; by November 30, 2023, at 8:45 in the morning, she was his ex-girlfriend.
At that moment, he had already three warrants involving his ex-girlfriend from the prior week. But that wasn’t quite enough for him. He was armed — note to anti-gunners: recalcitrant felons generally don’t follow gun laws that forbid gun possession — and he found his ex-girlfriend at her new boyfriend’s home.
He broke in, found the two, and fired a shot that hit the boyfriend in the hip.
Both the ex-girlfriend and the boyfriend returned fire. The fact that both victims were ready to fire back at Morehead suggests to me that they realized what was happening before Morehead located them and armed themselves in preparation. Those details aren’t in the police reports, though.
Morehead wasn’t hit, but he ran away from the gunfire.
The boyfriend was taken to the hospital and was expected to recover; the ex-girlfriend wasn’t injured. The police put on a search for Morehead, who would face two charges for aggravated assault and one for especially aggravated burglary.
One caveat: Looking at these stories from a distance of a few years sometimes gives closure, but sometimes it raises questions. Searching the Nashville / Davidson County database for “Damarquis Morehead” (including the detailed criminal history) turns up a lot of charges for him, but none of them have an offense date of 11/30/2023. Maybe there’s something I don’t understand — if you do, please let me know in the comments. At any rate, in 2024, Morehead got sentenced to 30 months for being a felon in possession of a handgun.
Sources
The core resource is the Nashville and Davidson County news release. All of the other write-ups are derivatives.
Fox 17, WKRN, and WSMV4 all covered the news. WSMV4 gave it some air time.
In the 2A community, Brandon Curtis at Concealed Nation covered this story.
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