27-05-2025
Nashville, Jackson police investigating shootings that left innocent bystanders injured
Two teenage girls and a 42-year-old woman in Nashville are recovering after two separate incidents of errant gunfire injured them Memorial Day, while Jackson police investigate a shooting that injured seven.
In total, Nashville police responded to at least two shootings with injury, a fatal stabbing and a fatal beating over Memorial Day weekend.
The weekend first escalated when Oliver Paul McConnell suffered a head injury during a fight near Printers Alley early May 24. McConnell was taken to Vanderbilt University Medical Center where he died.
Then a Madison Precinct police officer was in the area of Madison First Baptist Church when he heard a fight and pulled into the parking lot just after midnight May 26. The officer found two men tussling on the ground, one with stab wounds. He later died at TriStar Skyline Medical Center, police said in a statement.
Shortly before 4:30 a.m. May 26, police were called to 1 Titans Way. A 42-year-old woman and her boyfriend were in their tent near the East Bank greenway when they heard an argument across the Cumberland River and then gunfire. A bullet tore through the tent and hit the woman in both hands, police said in a statement.
Investigators found two 9mm shell casings on the steps of the west bank along First Avenue North. A witness said he intervened in a fight between two groups of people and when one person pulled a firearm the witness walked away.
"He then believed he heard shots being fired. He flagged someone down for help," police said in a statement.
The woman was taken to Vanderbilt University Medical Center where she is recovering, police said.
Later in the afternoon, police were called to Cedar Hill Park off Old Hickory Boulevard in Madison when two teen girls were injured in a shooting. The girls, 16 and 17, were caught in the crossfire of at least two feuding people, police said.
"A number of teens were present at the park to take part in a publicized party to celebrate Memorial Day when an argument in the parking lot involving unidentified persons resulted in gunfire," police said in a statement. "The two girls were not involved in that dispute."
A bullet grazed one girl in the leg. The other girl was shot in the arm and torso, police said.
Anyone with information about the individuals involved in the gunfire downtown or at Cedar Hill Park is asked to call Crime Stoppers at 615-742-7463.
In Jackson, police and officials are still trying to understand what happened at Kate Campbell Robertson Memorial Park May 24 when a shooting broke out. Police have given little information but said the shooting involved juveniles.
Officials said one person is in critical but stable condition, two were injured but stable and later released, and the remaining four were treated for gunshot wounds and released immediately.
This article originally appeared on Nashville Tennessean: Bloody weekend: Nashville, Jackson police investigating shootings
