On January 24, 2022, Shaquille Cotton, 28, was standing at the passenger side of a silver vehicle in the 600 block of South 7th Street in the Cayce neighborhood of East Nashville when an assailant approached from behind and opened fire. Cotton was critically wounded and died shortly after arriving at Vanderbilt Medical Center. Detectives with the Metropolitan Nashville Police Department’s Homicide Unit concluded the shooting was a targeted attack and released surveillance photos showing a Black man with long dreadlocks, wearing a gray jacket, black jeans, and carrying a black backpack.

On February 24, 2022, undercover detectives with the Specialized Investigations Division’s TITANS Unit arrested 28-year-old Chason Yearby as the suspected killer as he emerged from an apartment on Zermatt Avenue in South Nashville. Yearby was charged with criminal homicide and held without bond.

If anyone has information about Cotton, the circumstances that led to the shooting, or saw activity in the Cayce neighborhood that night, please share what was observed.