Edward Earl Johnson Jr., a 24-year-old Black man, was found with a gunshot wound to his upper torso the evening of January 29, 2020, in the parking lot of the Abbington Heights Apartments on Hickory Hollow Terrace in Antioch, Tennessee. Emergency crews transported him to Vanderbilt University Medical Center, where he was pronounced dead. Metro Nashville Police investigated this as the city’s sixth criminal homicide that year.

A handgun was recovered near Johnson’s body and was later identified as a firearm reported stolen in a residential burglary the previous November. Despite that recovery, investigators have not publicly identified a motive or named any suspects or persons of interest. No arrests have been announced and the case remains open.

If anyone saw activity near Abbington Heights on the evening of January 29, 2020, or has information about the stolen handgun or this homicide, share what is known with Metro Nashville Police.