A planned meeting in a Nashville apartment complex parking lot ended in the death of 20-year-old Nicholas Spivey in May 2022. According to investigators, Spivey arranged to meet at Valley Ridge Apartments on Harding Pike with at least two, possibly three, people who arrived in a silver Hyundai Sonata. The backseat passenger exited and opened fire, striking Spivey multiple times; he was taken to Vanderbilt University Medical Center and pronounced dead.

Detectives tied the encounter to drugs after finding packaging materials in Spivey’s apartment and noting he had more than $3,200 on him at the time. A search of his unit turned up five firearms, including a stolen pistol and an AR-style rifle. Homicide investigators identified one alleged gunman as 20-year-old James Marques Smith; a criminal homicide warrant was issued but Smith had not been located in the days after the shooting. The silver Sonata was later found abandoned in East Nashville and impounded.

What can anyone who knew Spivey or who was in that complex on the afternoon in May 2022 add that might help investigators?