A man was shot and killed overnight on Charles E. Davis Boulevard in Nashville, with police finding him in a doorway suffering from a gunshot wound to the chest. He was pronounced dead at the scene, and as of Tuesday night, investigators had not identified a suspect.
Officers responded to a reported shooting in the 100 block of Charles E. Davis Boulevard Tuesday night, according to WZTV. The Metro Nashville Police Department confirmed the man was found shot and later died at the scene. The station reports that the shooting investigation currently has no identified suspects, and that officers are reviewing surveillance footage as they work to piece together what happened.
No Suspects Identified as Investigation Continues
Beyond the confirmation that a man was shot and killed, MNPD has not released additional details about the circumstances leading up to the shooting. The station's report notes investigators are still working the case, with surveillance video expected to play a role in identifying who was involved.
The 100 block of Charles E. Davis Boulevard, located in the JC Napier area, has seen repeated gun violence in recent years. In May, police investigated a fourth shooting in the JC Napier neighborhood within less than 79 hours, according to WKRN, which reported that the previous three incidents in that stretch were all deadly. That fourth shooting, on the 100 block of Charles E. Davis Boulevard, left an 18-year-old man with a non-life-threatening gunshot wound to the leg, the outlet reported.
A Pattern of Violence Along the Same Corridor
The same May cluster included the killing of 63-year-old Alan Howard in a shooting on Fain Street, which led to the arrest of 30-year-old Timothy Gibbons Jr., per WKRN's reporting. The outlet also reported that a 29-year-old man, Bryan Lewis, was shot in the 600 block of Charles E. Davis Boulevard and later died at a local hospital — though a separate account from the Metro Nashville Police Department identified the victim in a May 25, 2024 fatal shooting on the same block as Bryan T. Lewis, age 32. The discrepancy in the victim's reported age has not been resolved between the two accounts.
More recently, a shooting around 5 p.m. on Sept. 10 in the 500 block of Charles E. Davis Boulevard left one person injured, with the victim transported to Vanderbilt University Medical Center with non-critical injuries to his leg, according to the same WKRN account. In May, a separate shooting investigation began after a man was shot multiple times by a man on a dirtbike; police were dispatched to the area of Lafayette Street and Charles E. Davis Boulevard around 2:30 a.m. after being alerted to that shooting, per WSMV. In that case, a 45-year-old man was found with multiple gunshot wounds in a nearby alleyway on Clairborne Street and was taken to Vanderbilt University Medical Center, where he was expected to survive.
Past Fatal Shootings on the Same Street
The street has a longer history of lethal violence. The Metro Nashville Police Department previously identified Dequan Howse, 33, as the man fatally wounded in an apparent targeted shooting in a courtyard of Napier Place in the 100 block of Charles E. Davis Boulevard. In a separate case, police identified Juan Marquez, 35, as the victim of a fatal shooting outside his residence at 90 Charles E. Davis Boulevard in the Sudekum Apartments.
Citywide, Nashville's homicide numbers have trended downward overall. District Attorney General Glenn R. Funk's office reported that Nashville closed out 2025 with 74 recorded homicides, a figure nearly 27.5 percent lower than 2024 and the city's lowest total since 2014. The Metro Nashville Police Department also maintains a data dashboard tracking aggregated gun-crime statistics, including fatal and non-fatal shootings, stolen and recovered firearms, and firearms-related arrests, though the dashboard does not establish a specific trend for this stretch of Charles E. Davis Boulevard.
For now, Tuesday night's shooting remains under investigation, with no suspect identified and police continuing to review surveillance video as they work to determine what led to the man's death.
