Dean Lesile Kwatelai-Quartey, 43, was shot and killed in the late hours of Thursday, January 28, 2021, in a parking lot at 300 McCann Street in Nashville, near 3rd Avenue South. Wounded in an initial encounter, he walked to a nearby parking lot seeking help; the man identified as Rojelio Rivera followed, fired again through a fence, and then fled. Kwatelai-Quartey was taken to a local hospital where he died.

Kwatelai-Quartey was a native of Oklahoma City and was known to friends and family as Les; he was a standout football and track athlete at Franklin High School. Officers searching the area located 38-year-old Rivera behind a building at McCann Street and 2nd Avenue South and recovered a .45-caliber pistol. Rivera was charged with criminal homicide and unlawful gun possession by a convicted felon; motive remained under investigation.

Did anyone in the area see or hear anything that night or know why Rivera and Kwatelai-Quartey encountered one another?