Nashville Walgreens employee shoots pregnant woman accused of shoplifting

An armed Walgreens employee opened fire on a pregnant woman who allegedly shoplifted from the Nashville store — striking her multiple times and forcing doctors to perform an emergency C-section to save her baby Wednesday night.

The worker reportedly witnessed the woman, who was seven months pregnant, and a second individual steal items from the store and confronted them in what ended up an exchange of mace and bullets, WKRN reported.

Police said the shooting occurred at around 8 p.m. in the parking lot of the East Nashville location of the drug store chain, according to the news station.

The employee said he watched the two women load up a large bag and store cart with items from store shelves and then leave the store with the items without paying, according to cops.

He followed the pair into the parking lot and witnessed them unloading the stolen items into a car trunk. As he moved to approach the women, one of them allegedly whipped out a can of mace and sprayed the worker.

The staffer then brandished his semi-automatic pistol and began shooting at the alleged shoplifters, police said. He shot the 34-year-old pregnant woman multiple times, the station reported.

He reportedly told cops that he was afraid and didn’t know if either of the women were armed, according to the local outlet.

The women jumped into their car and sped off to the hospital. The second woman dropped off her injured, pregnant partner-in-crime at General Hospital and drove off, according to WKRN.

An ambulance then transferred the wounded shoplifter to Vanderbilt University Medical Center, where doctors performed an emergency C-section to cut out the 7-month-old baby — whom bullets miraculously missed.

Both the woman and her baby are in critical but stable condition.

The investigation is ongoing and there have been no arrests.