Man shot outside Murfreesboro hotel

A man was shot outside a hotel in Murfreesboro Sunday morning.

It happened at Baymont Inn on Armory Drive just before 6 a.m.

According to police. the man was shot in the abdomen and taken to Vanderbilt University Medical Center.

A man staying at the hotel told News 2 he heard one gunshot before he ran outside to see what happened.

“We originally thought people were partying,” Christopher Miller said. “Then we walked outside and a man was bleeding out on the sidewalk.

Miller said two others staying at the hotel applied pressure to the victim’s wound.

No other details about the shooting have been released.

Courtesy of WKRN Nashville’s News 2