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 …
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 …
