On the morning of January 12, 2021, 25-year-old Damien Johnson was shot and killed after a domestic dispute at The Overton Brentwood Apartments on Edmondson Pike in South Nashville. Johnson had been visiting his girlfriend when a fight between the couple turned physical. A resident of the same unit, 24-year-old Corbin Rashard Arrington, intervened, produced a pistol and shot Johnson. Arrington then dragged Johnson’s body out of the apartment and fled after noticing the girlfriend was on the phone with 911. Investigators determined the girlfriend had not asked Arrington to intervene.

The Metro Nashville Police Department issued a warrant for Arrington on a criminal homicide charge; he surrendered to Homicide Unit detectives later that day. Court filings show the original first-degree murder charge was amended and Arrington pleaded guilty to aggravated assault resulting in death. A judge later sentenced him to six years in the Tennessee Department of Correction, and an appeal for judicial diversion or an alternative sentence was denied.

If anyone witnessed the argument at the apartment complex or has information about what led up to the shooting, please share what is known.