A man was found with a gunshot wound in the parking lot of a Sam's Club on Antioch Pike early Sunday morning, and Metro Nashville officials say an investigation is underway. First responders were called to the 1300 block of Antioch Pike at 4:17 a.m., where they discovered the victim before he was taken to the hospital by ambulance.
The victim's condition is not currently known, according to Metro Nashville Police Department officials cited by WKRN News 2, which first reported the shooting and says it will continue updating the story as new details emerge. The station's report does not yet indicate whether a suspect has been identified or what led up to the gunfire. The Sam's Club at that address, store #8294, sits near the intersection of Antioch Pike and Harding Place and includes a retail warehouse, tire and battery center, and member fuel station, according to Sam's Club.
Gunshot victims requiring emergency surgical care in Metro Nashville are typically transported to Vanderbilt University Medical Center, which operates the only ACS-verified adult Level I Trauma Center in Middle Tennessee and treats more than 8,000 trauma patients annually, per Vanderbilt Health. It remains unclear whether the Sunday morning victim was taken there. Whether the victim or shooter had any connection to the store or nearby businesses, and whether surveillance cameras captured the incident, are among the open questions investigators have not yet addressed publicly.
A Parking Lot With A History
This is not the first time law enforcement has descended on this particular Sam's Club lot. In May 2022, Metro Nashville Police Department South Precinct detectives and an aviation unit tracked an armed felony suspect wanted on child exploitation charges to the same 1300 Antioch Pike parking lot, where undercover officers tackled and arrested him while he was carrying a handgun, according to a statement from Nashville.gov.
Sunday's shooting also follows a string of violent incidents along the surrounding corridor in recent days. Just six days earlier, on August 31, Metro Nashville Police responded to an overnight shooting in the nearby 900 block of Richards Road, a commercial strip connecting Antioch Pike to Bell Road, that left one man injured with no suspects named, as Hoodline previously reported. Two days before that, a suspect from an earlier Antioch shooting was caught following a 140 mph chase down I-24.
Chases And Crashes Along The Same Stretch
The area has also seen chaos unrelated to gunfire. On September 4, just two days before this shooting, a high-speed police pursuit of a stolen fire truck ended near the intersection of Murfreesboro Pike and Una Antioch Pike after officers deployed spike strips, a chase Hoodline covered in its report on the truck's crash. That pursuit began after a suspect stole the brush truck and threatened to run people over before crashing into police and civilian vehicles.
Antioch Pike itself has a longer history of deadly violence. In July 2024, a shooting on the corridor killed 16-year-old Jawaun Jones after the teenager dropped a gun during a fight; another person picked it up and fired it, leading to evidence tampering charges against a suspect who claimed self-defense. Metro Council has also taken legislative aim at the pattern of late-night violence in the area — in April, Councilmember Joy Styles introduced a zoning ordinance seeking to remove bars and nightclubs from shared shopping center districts following multiple late-night shootings and federal police actions along Antioch's commercial strips.
A Heavy Caseload For South Precinct
The 1300 block of Antioch Pike falls under the jurisdiction of Metro Nashville Police Department's South Precinct, which patrols one of Davidson County's heaviest violent crime dockets. The precinct has historically logged up to 29 homicides and 1,454 aggravated assaults in a single year across its 19.9-square-mile territory. To help address rising public safety demands in South Nashville and Antioch, the department opened its new Southeast Precinct on Murfreesboro Pike in November 2025, marking its first precinct expansion in 11 years.
If a suspect is identified and charged in connection with Sunday's shooting, Tennessee law classifies an assault committed with a firearm as aggravated assault, a felony punishable by two to 15 years in prison depending on whether it is charged as a Class C or Class D felony. No arrests have been announced, and officials have not released additional details about what preceded the gunfire outside the Sam's Club early Sunday morning.
