On November 24, 2020, 12-year-old Abdiwahab Adam was shot and killed while driving a stolen pickup truck on Interstate 24 in Nashville. The truck had been reported stolen on November 19 from Cain Harbor Drive with the keys left inside. The shooting happened near the Silliman Evans Bridge at about 3:15 a.m.; a pistol was recovered from the vehicle and the interstate was closed for part of the morning while investigators processed the scene.

Also killed in the vehicle was 14-year-old Donquez Abernathy; two other passengers, a 14-year-old girl and a 16-year-old boy, were injured. The 16-year-old passenger, identified as Tristan Williams, was also wounded, taken into custody, and later charged with two counts of criminal homicide and one count of attempted criminal homicide. The motive remains under investigation.

Abdiwahab was a seventh-grade student at J.T. Moore Middle School. Metro Nashville Public Schools offered grief counseling to affected school communities and the school principal urged support for students after the deaths. If anyone has information about what happened that night or about the events leading up to the shooting, please share it with investigators.