A gunman walked into a Subway on the 300 block of Murfreesboro Pike Sunday morning, demanded money at gunpoint, then grabbed the entire register system and ran toward Trevecca University's campus. The cashier escaped unharmed by locking herself inside an office as the robbery unfolded.
According to WKRN News 2, the incident happened at 11:40 a.m. on Sunday, Oct. 18, when the suspect demanded money from the register at gunpoint. The cashier then ran into an office and locked the door, and the suspect reportedly took the entire register system before fleeing toward the nearby Trevecca University campus.
Metro Nashville Police Department robbery unit detectives are now investigating the incident and working to identify the man responsible. Police describe him as a man in his 40s, about 6 feet 2 inches tall and weighing roughly 200 pounds. Beyond that description, no further information was released, per the same account.
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The Subway holdup comes amid a broader conversation about how often Nashville robbery cases actually get solved. A separate report from WSMV found that Metro Nashville Police officially cleared only about one in five robberies dating back to February 2021, meaning roughly 80% of cases went unsolved, according to FBI data cited in that report. MNPD, for its part, reported a 27% robbery clearance rate over that same five-year window — a discrepancy the station's reporting did not resolve.
Robbery Numbers Trending Down Citywide
Whatever the precise clearance rate, the station's data also showed robberies overall have been falling across Nashville. Robberies dropped 31% in 2025 compared with the year before, and January 2026 saw about half as many robberies as January 2025, per MNPD data shared with the FBI. About 3% of the more than 6,000 robberies MNPD investigated between February 2021 and February 2026 occurred at gas stations, that same report noted.
MNPD also reported its robbery clearance rate sits below both the national and state averages, listed at 29% and 22%, respectively, in the WSMV data. For now, the Subway case remains open, and investigators are relying on the public's help to track down the man who walked off with the register.
