Daryl Quintin Shannon, known as DJ, was 18 when he was fatally shot on November 4, 2022, while sitting in the driver’s seat of a Dodge Journey van in the parking lot of the Paddock at Grandview Apartments on Scruggs Lane in Nashville. He is remembered as a talented young man who wrote music and could light up a room.

Investigators focused on a possible drug-related motive after two people in a silver Hyundai approached Shannon’s vehicle just before 5 a.m. The Hyundai fled and was later located abandoned at Glastonbury Woods Apartments. Police detained five people who had approached that vehicle; 20-year-old Brandon Waire was charged with criminal homicide, a 16-year-old was charged as an accessory after the fact and with gun and drug offenses after being found with a pistol believed to be the murder weapon, and 19-year-old Dakiyah Childress was charged with tampering with evidence and contributing to the delinquency of a minor.

In February 2023 a grand jury indicted a second primary suspect, 20-year-old Kendrick William, on homicide and aggravated robbery charges after investigators determined a second person had been in the Dodge with Shannon. The full scope of what happened that morning remains under investigation.

Did anyone know Daryl or have information about the parking lot that night?