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 …
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 …
Metro Nashville police took a phone call from Zohal Sakwall on January 31, and the story she told them was shocking. Sakwall, 40, told officers that she had put a plastic bag over her infant daughter’s head and suffocated her because of “the disruption to her life caused by having the child,” police said. Even …
Fourteen years after she killed a 43-year-old man at the age of 16, Cyntoia Brown learned this week that she will spend at least 51 years behind bars before she could be granted parole. The decision came following a lawsuit on her behalf based on a 2012 U.S. Supreme Court opinion that it is unconstitutional …
Authorities in Indiana say a 20-year-old woman beat her infant daughter to death earlier this year. According to WRTV, the Monroe County Circuit Court secured an arrest warrant this week for Anna Prewitt-Byers of Nashville. Indiana State Police officers took her into custody on Wednesday following an investigation that dates back to the 7-month-old girl’s …
What was supposed to be a night of spooky fun took an all-too-real twist when police say a woman unwittingly stabbed her friend during what she thought was part of the entertainment. According to Fox News, a foursome of friends entered the Nashville Nightmare haunted house attraction in Tennessee on Friday night when someone approached …
A 30-year-old pregnant woman was forced to jump from a third-story apartment window this week to escape an attacker, Tennessee authorities say. According to the New York Post, a man allegedly entered the Nashville home on Wednesday afternoon and raped the woman before robbing her. The woman reportedly told police that she was lying in …
Authorities in Tennessee say the man who was nearly naked when he executed a mass shooting at a Nashville-area Waffle House might not stand trial due to mental incompetence. According to the New York Post, officials announced the results of their evaluation of suspect Travis Reinking, who is accused of opening fire on customers and …
Prosecutors in Tennessee have released disturbing footage that shows the moment an officer opened fire on a black man running away from him. The death of 25-year-old Daniel Hambrick has sparked widespread backlash in Nashville since the July 26 shooting. Graphic footage released this week by the Nashville district attorney’s office added to the protests …
