Tony Terrell Bonds, 44, was killed in Nashville’s Edgehill neighborhood on the night of September 5, 2020. According to investigators, Bonds and a female friend were walking toward an apartment building on the 1100 block of Horton Avenue around or shortly after midnight when a sudden confrontation occurred. Police say someone shot Bonds in the head and then ran him over with a vehicle, leaving him mortally wounded; he died that night. Neighbors reported hearing the blast and seeing the aftermath, and Metro Nashville Police Department detectives from the Midtown Hills Precinct and the TITANS unit processed the scene and collected witness statements.

Police identified and arrested 33-year-old Mario Deshon Murray in early April 2021; a Davidson County grand jury later indicted him on a first-degree murder charge alleging he shot Bonds and then drove over him. Court activity and appellate filings followed as the case moved through the Tennessee criminal justice system. Friends and community members remember Bonds with vigils and online tributes. If anyone witnessed the confrontation on Horton Avenue or has information not yet shared with investigators, please come forward.