Three Tennessee football players arrested, face attempted armed robbery charges
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Three University of Tennessee football players are in custody and charged with attempted armed robbery after an incident that occurred early this morning at a Pilot convenience store located on Cumberland Avenue in Knoxville, near the University of Tennessee campus.
According to Knoxville Police Department Spokesman Darrell DeBusk, Nu’Keese Richardson, Janzen Jackson and Mike Edwards were being held at the Knox County Detention Center.
Officers responded to the Pilot convenience store located at 2218 Cumberland Ave. at about 1:43 this morning on an armed robbery in progress call. According to police reports three men were sitting in car waiting on a friend who was inside the store.
The three men stated they had parked next to a light blue Toyota Prius. Then went on to say a black male then approached, wearing a black hoodie and brandished a black semi-automatic handgun. He opened the drivers door and said, “Give me everything you have.”
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