Marty Samuel Adkins, a 52-year-old Black man, was shot and killed in the early morning hours of October 3, 2021, while walking home along Moorewood Drive in Nashville after attending a nearby party. A passerby found his body in the street; residents reported hearing gunfire around that time and the Metro Nashville Police Department’s Homicide Unit opened an investigation led by Detective Juan Gonzalez.

Less than a month later, on November 9, 2021, 39-year-old Jashawn Jerome Simmons was arrested in Clarksville by the U.S. Marshal’s Fugitive Task Force and charged with criminal homicide. Investigators say the shooting occurred during an argument between Simmons and Adkins. Court records show Simmons was initially charged with first-degree murder and later convicted of the lesser offense of second-degree murder, receiving a 25-year sentence in the Tennessee Department of Correction.

Did anyone in the area see or hear anything that night that could add detail to the timeline or the argument between Adkins and Simmons?