Arondai Thompson was 20 when he was shot and killed in Nashville on the evening of April 6, 2022. A former East Nashville High School football standout who had played at Cumberland University, Thompson was in a parked car on Robwood Drive with 19-year-old Jamandas Mayberry and two others when witnesses say multiple firearms were being passed among the occupants.

According to witnesses, two people left the car to play basketball, leaving Thompson and Mayberry alone in the backseat. Moments later a single gunshot rang out; the witnesses returned to find Thompson fatally wounded in the upper right thigh. The witnesses drove him to TriStar Skyline Medical Center, where he was pronounced dead. Mayberry fled the scene but was later found at his home, arrested by the Metro Nashville Police Department, charged with criminal homicide and held without bond. Authorities seized several vehicles and firearms during the investigation.

Does anyone have information about Thompson’s final hours or saw the vehicle on Robwood Drive that evening?