DeTerrius Smith was 21 and working as an off-duty security guard when he was shot and killed at a UPS facility on Whites Creek Pike in Nashville on February 15, 2022. Smith had left the property around 3 p.m. but returned just over an hour later and parked in the lot. Shortly after his return a black Nissan Sentra with a female driver and a male passenger pulled up; the male, identified as 19-year-old Robert Darden, got into Smith’s car. A shot was fired, and Smith got out of the vehicle before collapsing nearby. Co-workers took him to Skyline Medical Center, where he died.

Detectives identified Darden as the primary suspect. Officers from Nashville’s TITANS unit located him at a South Nashville apartment complex a few days later; he tried to flee, discarded a nine-millimeter pistol, and was captured after a brief chase. The Sentra’s female driver told investigators she was an acquaintance Darden had paid for a ride and that he forced her at gunpoint to drive away, threatening to kill her if she spoke. Darden was jailed without bond on charges including criminal homicide, aggravated kidnapping, and evading arrest.

If anyone knew DeTerrius Smith, his routines at the UPS facility, or saw a black Nissan Sentra near Whites Creek Pike that afternoon, please share what was seen.