A Nashville teenager was arrested after a drive-by shooting in Cheatham County that endangered children, according to authorities. The incident involved a drive-by shooting in Cheatham County.
What We Know About the Arrest
The teen was taken into custody following the shooting, which left children in danger, according to WKRN News 2. Specific details about the suspect's identity, the location of the shooting, and the circumstances surrounding the incident have not been fully disclosed in the available reporting. The case involves a Nashville teen and a shooting in Cheatham County.
Also in August, Metropolitan Nashville Police detectives investigated an officer-involved shooting after a Cheatham County Sheriff's deputy fired at the tire of a fleeing suspect's SUV outside a Davidson County market near the county line, according to the Metropolitan Nashville Police Department.
A Pattern of Cross-Border Youth Gun Cases
Cheatham County had an estimated 2025 population of 42,778 and an average daily commute of 33.5 minutes for residents who cross county lines for work, per the U.S. Census Bureau. The case involves a Nashville-area teen and Cheatham County law enforcement. In May, Cheatham County Sheriff's deputies arrested a Nashville teenager during a traffic stop after finding drugs and a fully automatic firearm in the vehicle, according to WKRN News 2.
The arrest also lands amid a broader wave of juvenile gun violence cases across the region. On October 2, Metropolitan Nashville Police arrested four teenagers in connection with the August drive-by shooting death of a 16-year-old who was shot while walking home from a high school football game in North Nashville, the Metropolitan Nashville Police Department reported. Last month, an 18-year-old Nashville teenager was held without bond on four counts of attempted homicide following a June highway drive-by shooting on Murfreesboro Pike that left a three-month-old infant with graze wounds, as Hoodline previously reported.
What Tennessee Law Says About Drive-By Shootings
Tennessee law treats shootings from moving vehicles with some of the toughest penalties on the books. Discharging a firearm from within a motor vehicle is a Class C felony form of reckless endangerment under Tennessee Code Annotated § 39-13-103(b)(4), carrying three to 15 years in state prison, according to Justia Law.
It remains unclear what motivated the shooting or what relationship, if any, existed between the suspect and those inside the targeted location. How the teen obtained the firearm involved also has not been disclosed. The case follows a series of recent Hoodline reports on youth gun violence in the Nashville area, including a shooting near an Edgehill court and a shooting near Pearl-Cohn High.
