Juwan Gaines, 19, identified by MNPD detectives as the man who fired shots in a hallway of Opry Mills Mall on the night of September 30, has been ordered held without bond in the Downtown Detention Center on charges of attempted first-degree murder, felony reckless endangerment, and use of a firearm in the commission of a dangerous felony.
Gaines, of Lebanon, Tennessee, was accompanied by his family as he surrendered at the Hermitage Precinct this morning. The arrest warrants were issued Friday night as the result of a continuing investigation by Hermitage Precinct detectives, the MNPD Gang Unit and the Juvenile Crime Task Force.
The mall gunfire occurred at 6:10 p.m. last Wednesday and involved one group of three people and another group of five. As the two groups approached each other from opposite directions, a man in the group of three, subsequently identified as Gaines, suddenly pulled a pistol and opened fire. A 19-year-old who was in the group of five, Michael Pignone, suffered a gunshot wound to the chest. He remains in critical but stable condition at a local hospital.
