A shootout outside a Nashville bank left police searching for a missing gunman Friday afternoon, after officers determined that two men had fired at each other near the busy intersection of Plus Park Boulevard and Murfreesboro Pike. One of the men was located by police, while the second remains at large, and investigators believe both were hurt in the exchange of gunfire.
Officers with the Metro Nashville Police Department were called to the area near Region's Bank at Plus Park Boulevard and Murfreesboro Pike, according to WSMV. A preliminary investigation found that the two men shot at each other, the station reports, though the circumstances that led to the confrontation have not been detailed publicly.
Police found one of the men at the scene, but the station notes that the other man is still at large as the search continues. Investigators believe both men involved were injured in the shooting, per the same account, though further details about their conditions have not been released.
A Stretch of Road With a Troubled History
The corridor where Friday's shooting unfolded has seen violence before, though none of those earlier incidents has been confirmed as connected to this one. In July 2025, Metro Nashville Police reported that two men were shot in a Murfreesboro Pike liquor-store parking lot, one of them fatally, in an incident detectives said involved suspected robbers.
Court documents cited by federal prosecutors also describe a November 2024 shooting inside an apartment building at 331 Plus Park Boulevard, according to the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Middle District of Tennessee. And in April 2024, homicide detectives said they were working active leads after a fatal shooting at the nearby Cascade Apartments on Murfreesboro Pike left one man dead and another wounded, Metro Nashville police said in a statement posted to the city's website.
A separate shooting reported by NewsChannel 5 left two people injured along Murfreesboro Pike early one Monday, after a vehicle pulled into a parking lot and fired shots at a gray Dodge Charger before driving off. None of these prior incidents has been tied to Friday's shooting near Region's Bank.
Citywide Gunfire Numbers Show a Mixed Picture
Zooming out, Nashville has recorded 110 gunshot victims so far in 2026, putting the city on pace to trend below last year's total, according to Metro Nashville Police Department data cited by WKRN. But the makeup of who gets shot has been shifting: from 2021 through 2025, victims between the ages of 18 and 24 increased nearly 27%, while victims between 25 and 34 rose just over 12%, the station reports. Over that same stretch, victims ages 35 to 44 fell about 43%.
The city's police data dashboard tracks fatal and non-fatal gunshot injuries citywide, though it excludes suicides, accidental shootings and property-damage incidents, according to Metro Nashville's own description of the tool. No arrests or charges have been announced in connection with Friday's shooting, and the identity of the man who remains at large has not been released.
