A Nashville college freshman died last week a day after she was struck in the head by a stray bullet, fired by a man who had been released from custody in another shooting after doctors found he was incompetent to stand trial. Both Jillian Ludwig’s parents and Nashville officials slammed state law that allowed for …
The Tennessee Bureau of Investigation issued a Blue Alert late Saturday night for the “estranged son” of Nashville Police Chief John Drake, who is suspected of shooting two La Vergne police officers outside a store in the Nashville suburb earlier in the day. John C. Drake Jr., 38, was also added to TBI’s most wanted …
A Nashville man convicted three times on domestic violence charges has now been charged with killing his girlfriend. The Metropolitan Nashville Police Department said that Steven Cosby, 53, surrendered Wednesday to face charged in the death of 41-year-old Brooke Howard, who was found beaten to death in her apartment on Tuesday. Maintenance staff at the …
A 51-year-old Tennessee woman faces six counts of child neglect after a 3-month-old boy in her care was found dead and six other children were left unattended in her apartment. Anne C. Jordan was arrested Thursday afternoon in Hickman County and returned to Nashville, according to the Metropolitan Nashville Police Department. The 3-month-old’s mother and …
A 3-month-old Tennessee boy was found dead Monday in his babysitter’s West Nashville apartment when the boy’s mother and another parent arrived to pick up their children. Six other infants, aged up to 16-months, were found alone in the apartment and were said to be in good health, WSMV reported. Hikers found the babysitter, 51-year-old …
Nashville police released body camera footage from the two officers who took down a school shooter on Monday, video that shows the careful and dramatic search of the building until the team hears gunshots coming from a floor above them. Police said Officers Rex Englebert and Michael Collazo were the officers who shot and killed …
Nashville police released surveillance video showing a suspected mass shooter driving up to a private Christian school and shooting their way in before killing three children and three adults. Police Chief John Drake said that investigators 28-year-old Audrey Hale may have had “some resentment for having to go to that school” and that they had …
A 22-year-old woman shot and killed a man in a Walmart parking lot outside Nashville, Tennessee, on Saturday, allegedly after a road-rage incident on Andrew Jackson Parkway. Metro Nashville Police said 38-year-old Tristan Walker died at the scene, and the suspected shooter remained on the scene and cooperated with investigators, according to WKRN. Police said …
A Grammy-winning Nashville sound engineer was shot dead by police on Thursday after he allegedly kidnapped his wife and stepdaughter at gunpoint and then greeted officers with a gun. Mark Capps, 54, ignored warnings from SWAT officers on the scene to put down his weapon, WSMV reported. Nashville Metro Police spokesman Don Aaron told the …
Police in Middle Tennessee are trying to identify a woman found dead from a shotgun wound in a northwest Nashville creek. Nashville Metropolitan Police said a passerby discovered the body in Drake Branch Creek on Wednesday, and the Forensic Science Center confirmed she died from a gunshot the following day. Police described her as a …
A Tennessee man was arrested Tuesday after he allegedly raped a woman he’d asked for a ride to work. The 25-year-old victim told Metro Nashville Police that she picked up Gary Lynn Pohlemann III, a 24-year-old acquaintance, Tuesday morning after he asked for a ride, WZTV reported. As he gave her directions, police said, he …
One of 44-year-old Shonka Dukureh’s two children found her unresponsive and ran to a neighbor’s for help Thursday morning.
