A late-night shooting at Sevier and University Streets in Murfreesboro in March 2021 left 26-year-old Carlos Vazquez dead. Vazquez was shot multiple times and later died of his injuries; a woman nearby was grazed by a bullet and survived.

Murfreesboro Police identified 25-year-old Markeace Perkins as a primary suspect early in the probe. Officers say Perkins fled in a stolen vehicle, allegedly stole a second car and tried to take a third before crashing dramatically down an embankment at Middle Tennessee and Samsonite boulevards; he was treated for facial injuries and then taken into custody. Perkins was charged with first-degree murder, attempted murder for the injured woman, unlawful possession of a weapon during a felony, reckless endangerment, theft and vandalism.

Investigators also sought a second person believed to have been involved. Three months after the shooting, 28-year-old Dimetrius Raymond Ford was arrested in Detroit and returned to Tennessee to face first-degree murder and attempted first-degree murder charges. Does anyone have information about Vazquez’s movements that night or about witnesses near Sevier and University Streets?