Police were trying to identify the suspects wanted in the fatal shooting of a man in the J.C. Napier public housing  development on Tuesday.  
Rashad Fisher, 19, who was shot in the abdomen, died overnight Wednesday at Vanderbilt Medical Center. Police said a
passenger in a tan or gold Chevrolet Impala fired shots in the direction of
Fisher and two friends, who were walking along Charles E. Davis Boulevard around 3:20 p.m. Tuesday.
 At least three people were inside the car. Detectives said they have nicknames of the three people inside the car, but want  to attach real names to their nicknames.

Police have arrested an ex-convict and convicted killer for the murder of
a carwash operator in North Nashville.  
27-year-old, Lonny Lanorris Holland was arrested Friday night for the September 14th murder of carwash operator McKinley Martin. Police said Martin was using a pickup truck with a large water tank in the bed to wash vehicles in the parking lot of a shopping center...
  on Clarksville Pike. When Holland pulled up in a gold or beige SUV, he allegedly asked how much the car wash cost and then began shooting. Holland fled on 25th Avenue North in the SUV. The vehicle was recovered tonight at Holland's residence. Detectives believe Holland specifically targeted Martin for reaso
 
 
 
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  Police and prosecutors are expressing frustration that one of the men arrested
in connection with Monday's deadly gang-related shooting is a convicted felon
once charged with murder and later allowed out on a bond paid by a local
doctor. Finis Lewis has an extensive criminal history, including a 2008
charge that he killed a man in the J.C. Napier public housing development. But
Monday night, Lewis was back on the streets, and  he now faces a firearms charge related to the shootout near Hadley Park. Lewis was even shot during the exchange.
 Police say witnesses were  critical in capturing Lewis after the 2008 shooting.
"The police  department is very dependent on witnesses. Their eyes and ears, if you will, help make Nashville a much safer place," said Don Aaron, Metro Police
spokesman. But before Lewis's trial, the witnesses either suddenly
changed their stories or disappeared. "Essentially, they had given one
statement to police during their investigation, and then closer to the trial
those statements or stories changed or witnesses disappeared," District Attorney
Dina Shabayak said.Lewis was later convicted on drug charges in 2010
for possessing ecstasy. Because of his problematic past, he was given a $150,000
bail. What happened next stunned police and prosecutors. According to court records obtained by the Channel 4 I-Team, Dr. Simone Lampkins of Brentwood paid Lewis's $15,000 bond to get him out of jail. Through  his office manager, Dr. Lampkin said he does not know Lewis at all, but he has  "no comment" when asked why court records show he paid Lewis's $15,000 bond. Police say if this doctor didn't pay Lewis's bond, and if witnesses from  the murder charge hadn't disappeared, the shoot-out on Monday may have ended  differently.
 
 
 
 

At approximately 01:40 am the Metro Police received a call to Dr. D.B. Todd  Jr. Blvd. near Albion St. regarding a man who had been shot and was found on the sidewalk.  Police personnel arrived at the scene to find that the victim had   died as a result of a gunshot wound. Shortly before the victim  was shot, Gene Brodie was seen on surveillance video walking down the  street
  with another person.  Several vehicles were seen  driving by the two as they continued walking on Dr. D.B. Todd Jr. Blvd.  A few  moments later, the suspect was seen running from the location.  The victim was found on the sidewalk by a passerby who had called the police.  The Metro Police Department is asking for the public’s assistance in locating the person responsible for this murder.  Since there were several vehicles going  by at the time the suspect was seen with the victim, someone would be able to  recognize the suspect.  The victim was using crutches at the time because of his  handicap; his right leg below the knee was gone.  Gene was wearing a dark  baseball cap, green short sleeve shirt with "CAMP" on the front, and light
colored blue jeans with the right pant leg pinned up from the  knee.

 The family of a missing Nashville teen is grieving from the news they feared all
week. Kendrya Davis,18, was killed and left in abandoned home in North
Nashville. After a week long search Metro Police finally found Kendrya's body inside a house at 1104 Cass Street right across from John Early Middle School in North Nashville. As detectives pulled her body out on a stretcher, members of the community made an impromptu prayer circle for the victim's family. "It is really a sad situation, and the family can have closure in at least knowing where the body was located," said Alexis Lewis who stopped at the site on her way to church.Police have
been searching for the teen since last Wednesday when her mother reported her missing. They focused in on this area after Kendrya's mother received a phone  call saying that her daughter had been shot and killed and left in an abandoned  house in North Nashville. Metro Police have been patrolling and searching ever  since. Just as two detectives were about to wrap up the search around 4:30 in the morning on Sunday, they went to one last vacant home. "Upon entry they went from one room to another Sergeant Pastiglione pulled down a sheet separating one room from another and discovered the body of Kendrya Davis," said Metro spokesperson Don Aaron.

Kendrya's mother, Beverly Sutton, said her
daughter disappeared last Monday after getting into a fight with her ex
boyfriend, Jose Hall, 19. She was last seen at the downtown bus depot where she
texted Sutton saying that she was headed to her brother's house in South
Nashville. She never showed up.

Police said they have strong leads in murder of a woman found stabbed to
death in South Nashville. Police said the body of 19-year-old Vickie Webb was discovered by maintenance staff around 3:30 p.m. Monday inside her
apartment in the Altamont Point complex on Murfreesboro. Police said
she had been dead for several days, and due to decomposition, positive
identification will be made through dental records. An autopsy on Tuesday revealed that the victim suffered stab wounds Webb's family told police they had not heard from her in several weeks. Her apartment rent was two months overdue, multiple rent notices from management had gone unanswered, and the electricity to the apartment was turned off. Maintenance staff from the apartment complex found the body at 3:30 p.m. Monday after using a passkey.

A 51-year-old woman wanted in connection to the murder of her boyfriend
surrendered to authorities at police headquarters Thursday night.
  Metro  police said Janice Leigh Jones turned herself in and was booked on a grand jury  indictment charging her with facilitation of first-degree murder. Jones
and her son, James Avery, are charged in connection to the February shooting
death  of James Charles Nance Nance, 46,was found dead in the front yard of a home on Union Hill Road in Joelton.Through their investigation, detectives learned that Nance and Jones had  been involved in a dispute. Detectives allege Avery drove Nance to Union Hill Road where he killed him. Jones is alleged to have had
knowledge of the plot.

Avery, 26, was already jailed for a probation
violation at the time of this week's indictment.

More than 10 years after the nude body of then-25-year-old Christina Yvonne  Parham turned up in East Nashville, cold case detectives arrested Wednesday the  man they believe killed her. 
Detectives arrested over-the-road truck  driver Kenneth Ray Davis, of Pennock Avenue, on a first-degree murder charge  following a grand jury indictment returned Tuesday. Police arrested Davis, 54,  on  Space Park North in Goodlettsville Wednesday morning as he parked a tractor-trailer rig after a trip to Laredo, Texas. Davis is being held in a Metro jail in lieu of $1 million bond. Parham’s body was found on the morning of Dec. 1, 2000, on the side of the road in the 1500 block of Dugger Drive in East Nashville. Police said Parham, of  Granada Avenue, was involved in prostitution and had apparently been thrown from  a moving vehicle. The medical examiner later determined she had died from  asphyxiation.  Police entered DNA evidence recovered from Parham’s body  into the FBI’s Combined DNA Index System computer database. When Davis’ DNA was  later cross-referenced in the system following an aggravated rape conviction in  Shelby County, it allegedly matched the evidence collected in the Parham  case. Police said a recent DNA sample collected from Davis confirmed  the match, but Davis wouldn’t admit to Parham’s murder during an interview with  detectives. The FBI has been notified of Davis’ arrest, and since he
has worked as a truck driver for the last seven years, authorities are looking
into his involvement in any other homicides in the Nashville area or
elsewhere.

Labor Day Party ended in gunshots that left a 16-year-old Hillsboro High School student dead. It happened early Sunday morning. The family of the teen
pleaded with the community for help solving the crime, hoping someone with information  ill come forward. Lamar Hughes' mother said two men  proached her son at the party. One hit him over the head and held him at gunpoint. She.  tried to save his life by jumping on top of him  during the shooting. Michelle Hughes said, "He was just a typical
16-year-old ready to be grown. I still can't believe it." She watched the
incident happen in front of her eyes at the Edgehill public housing complex off
14th Avenue South. She was there visiting her sister and celebrating the holiday
weekend. She recalls trying to take the bullets for her son. Hughes stated, "I
was like a turtle like a shell on top of my son." She says it's what any mother
would do as two men approached her son and held him at gunpoint, adding,
"Because that was my son, and I was going to save his life no matter what."  
The struggle to save him left her with a injured shoulder and a memory she
says she just can't shake. "He took my son away from me he took my son," said
Hughes.

 At approximately 1:45 am, the Metro Police Department received  a shots fired call in the James Cayce Housing Development on South 8th Street. 
The responding officers went to the area of 722 South 8th Street and Ronquez was  located near a van that was parked on the side of the road.  He was transported to the hospital and was pronounced deceased at Vanderbilt University Medical Center       
  Ronquez was walking toward Kirkpatrick Park when he was approached by one or
more suspects.  There was an argument between them yet it is unknown what lead
up to that argument or what the argument was about.  Shortly thereafter, Ronquez
was shot multiple times and he ran down the street before collapsing on South
8th Street.