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 …
Tennessee police this week arrested a second suspect in the shooting death of a nurse who was shot to death last month while driving along Interstate 440 on her way to work, WKRN reports. James Edward Cowan, 28, was arrested Tuesday night as he arrived at the Hickory Hollow Place apartment after they followed him …
A Tennessee man was shot dead in front of his girlfriend inside a west Nashville Target store, the Metro Nashville Police Department said. David Van Dyke, 29, has been charged with criminal homicide in the Sunday night shooting of Avery Collier, 40, police said. Investigators said that the two men “had words” in the front …
Investigators have identified a person of interest in the Christmas Day explosion in downtown Nashville, The Tennessean reported Saturday. State and federal agents converged on a duplex in Antioch, about 12 miles southeast of Nashville, Saturday morning for “court authorized activity,” FBI public affairs officer Darrell DeBusk told the newspaper. DeBusk said no arrests have …
An older recreational vehicle that arrived on a deserted downtown Nashville street early Friday morning exploded hours later, after broadcasting a warning and a 15-minute countdown. The vehicle was parked next to the central office of an AT&T telephone exchange which also had network equipment inside, and the blast interrupted communications service, the Associated Press …
A 26-year-old ICU nurse was fatally shot while driving to work on a Tennessee highway Friday night, the Metropolitan Nashville Police Department reports. A Nashville Parks police officer saw Caitlyn Kaufman’s car against a guard rail on Interstate 440 on the west end of the city shortly before 9 p.m. and stopped to assist, thinking …
A Tennessee man has been charged with beating his 14-year-old stepbrother to death while their mother watched and did nothing to stop it, NewsChannel5 Nashville reports. Rebacca Greenwood, 52, and David Matheny, 33, initially told officers that Sayeed Neilson, who had autism, fell in the shower on Thursday night and that they helped in get …
A Tennessee couple has been charged with aggravated child abuse when they were found overdosing in their car with their 2-year-old daughter in the back seat, WKRN reports. Leslie Lucas, 23, and Lindsey Vincion, 25, were stopped Thursday at an intersection near Antioch High School in Nashville’s Antioch neighborhood, according to the arrest warrant. A …
