A 37-year-old Tennessee man was arrested Saturday after driving his mother’s body, rolled in a tarp in the back of his truck, from Chattanooga to Nashville, a 130-mile trip. Thomas Henshall Jr has been charged with failure to report the discovery of a dead body and evidence tampering after touching and concealing the victim’s body, …
Police in Nashville, Tennessee, have arrested a man they say shot at two women and a young boy while chasing after them on Interestate 65 following a road rage incident. Ricky D. Starks, 23, faces 15 charges in Davidson County, including aggravated assault with a dangerous weapon, reckless endangerment, probation violation, and drug charges, jail …
Nashville police are looking for the driver of a car that struck and killed a man in a motorized wheelchair as he waited at a bus stop early Sunday afternoon. Police have not released the victim’s name, but they have released photos of a silver Chevrolet Monte Carlo that drove over the sidewalk, striking the …
Nashville police this week arrested a rideshare driver accused of dragging country star Claire Dunn out of her car in June and flinging her face-first into a ditch before marking the ride complete and speeding off. Albert Boakye, 46, was arrested early Tuesday morning on a misdemeanor assault warrant and was released shortly afterward on a …
A Tennessee man was arrested Sunday night and charged with setting a fire that killed his father. John Hassey, the 25-year-old son of the victim, has been charged with arson and aggravated assault, according to fire investigators, who said Monday afternoon that “additional charges are possible,” WKRN reported. Medical crews arrived on the scene at …
A workplace shooting in Nashville early Tuesday morning left three people wounded and the shooter dead in the middle of the street after an encounter with police. Two security guards at the SmileDirectClub warehouse — Johnny Hardin, 46, and Carlton Watson, 66 — were hospitalized, Hardin in critical condition and Watson in stable condition. Fifty-four-year-old …
A Tennessee man is in jail after Nashville police say he pretended to be a police officer during a road rage incident and threatened to shoot the other driver. Clifford Polly Jr., 34, drove a personal vehicle equipped with a public address system and red and white “wig wag” lights on the front and back …
A Tennessee grand jury has indicted a Nashville mother on a charge of first degree murder following the death of her 3-year-old daughter last year. Prestina Clark-Wilcox, 24, is behind held on a $250,000 bond, WSMV reported. Metropolitan Nashville Police said Paris Clark-Wilcox was found unresponsive in her mother’s home last July. Clark-Wilcox and her …
A 37-year-old Tennessee woman has been arrested for vehicular homicide after she knowingly sold a car to a 13-year-old boy who was later involved in high-speed accident that killed an elderly man. Katrina Lyn Russell was arrested Wednesday in Davidson County, the Nashville Metro Police Department said. She was charged with vehicular homicide due to …
Nashville homicide detectives are investigating a body found burnt beyond recognition in a dumpster fire in the city’s historic Cannery Row. Police said firefighters first responded when a sanitation worker reported the dumpster on fire at about 4 a.m. on Thursday. They called police after extinguishing the blaze and finding the body inside. Employees of …
A 21-year-old Tennessee woman has been charged with intentionally running over her former roommate with a car earlier this month, fatally injuring the roommate, Metro Nashville police said. Before she died, Amanda Byers, 20, identified Tessa Knapp as the woman behind the wheel of a car that knocked her down and ran over her on …
A YouTube prank went horribly wrong Friday night when one of the people being pranked shot and killed a prankster. Metro Nashville police said Timothy Wilks, 20, was fatally shot in the parking lot of Urban Air Trampoline and Adventure Park in the city’s Old Hickory neighborhood just before 9:30 p.m, The Tennessean reported. Witnesses …
