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Rhus Asefaw

Case from Nashville, TN dated Apr 10, 2017

Victim Details

Rhus Asefaw

March 28, 2022

Male

Other

Nashville

TN

2017-04-10

2017-04-10

26

Rhus

Asefaw

No

07/05/2026


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Rhus Asefaw, 26, male, was working as a convenience-store clerk at the Citgo station at 500 Main Street in East Nashville when an argument with a 15-year-old customer escalated into a confrontation on Monday, April 10, 2017. According to police, the dispute turned physical inside the store until a co-worker stepped in and managed to break it up, creating a brief lull that might have seemed like the end of it.

But the calm didn’t hold. Investigators said the 15-year-old left the store, ...
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