Leslie Lamont Coleman
Shelbyville Police report that one of two men charged with robbing a Shelbyville convenience store last week is a convicted murderer.
Leslie Lamont Coleman, 51, and Deontre Farris, 18, who share a Landers Street apartment, were arrested Wednesday by Detective Lt. Charles “Chucky” Merlo and Detective Cody Swift of the Shelbyville Police Department. The suspects allegedly robbed the Circle K convenience store, Madison Street and Wartrace Pike, at knifepoint around 1 a.m. last Monday.
Coleman is on parole after being found guilty of first-degree murder and especially aggravated robbery in 1991 in Nashville. The Nashville incident is similar to this week’s robbery in Shelbyville.
Deontre Farris
Coleman, then 23, and his stepbrother, Kenneth Robinson Jr., then 17, robbed several businesses in the Harding Mall-Nolensville Road area of Nashville in the summer and fall of 1990, according to reports in The Tennessean’s archives.
The 1990 victim had given the men free sandwiches before they shot her to death, hid her body in the store and left in her car with less than $100 in cash, a similar amount to that taken last week in Shelbyville. (Shelbyville Times-Gazette)
