A house party on Ewing Boulevard in Murfreesboro, Tennessee, turned deadly in the early hours of Saturday, February 6, 2021. A physical altercation inside the duplex escalated and multiple gunshots were fired. Twenty-one-year-old Giovanni Mikhail Gillis was fatally shot; two other people were struck and taken by friends to Saint Thomas Rutherford Hospital before transfer to a Nashville hospital with non-life-threatening injuries, and two more partygoers were grazed by bullets but declined treatment.

Investigators identified a suspect quickly. On Tuesday, February 9, 2021, 23-year-old Larry Johnson II was arrested in Cheatham County by the Rutherford County Criminal Warrants Division with assistance from the Cheatham County Sheriff’s Office and Murfreesboro Police Department detectives. He was booked into the Rutherford County Adult Detention Center and charged with first-degree murder; he was held without bond pending a court appearance set for April 5, 2021.

Does anyone have information about the party on Ewing Boulevard or knew Giovanni Gillis that could help shed light on what happened?