Shortly before midnight on April 7, 2021, Cleveland Curtis Shaw Jr., 29, was shot and killed while driving a three-wheeled Polaris Slingshot across the Clarksville Pike bridge over the Cumberland River in Nashville. An 18-year-old passenger was in the vehicle and was wounded but survived. Shots were fired from another vehicle, striking both men.

A 22-year-old man later turned himself in to the Metro Nashville Police Department with his lawyer and admitted firing at the Slingshot, saying he acted in self-defense and alleging shots were fired first from Shaw’s vehicle. Detectives recovered two firearms from the driver’s seat of the Slingshot, and a car believed to have been used by the shooter was found abandoned in a church parking lot. Shaw, known as Ears, was a father and an active member of Gideon’s Army; he was legally prohibited from possessing a firearm because of a 2015 domestic violence conviction.

The investigation is ongoing and no charges have been filed. Did anyone in Nashville see the Slingshot or the car near the Clarksville Pike bridge that night?