On the evening of August 12, 2019, 37-year-old Reginald Williams‑Foster was shot in the Cayce Homes neighborhood of Nashville and later died at Vanderbilt University Medical Center. The shooting happened just before 5 p.m. in the 600 block of South 7th Street; an 18-year-old man was also wounded and taken to the same hospital in stable condition.

Detectives from the Metropolitan Nashville Police Department’s East Precinct opened an active homicide investigation and said they were pursuing leads. Investigators were also examining whether the Cayce Homes shooting was connected to a separate incident less than an hour earlier at Riverchase Apartments on North 2nd Street, where a 22-year-old man was wounded but was uncooperative with police.

No arrests or specific suspects in Williams‑Foster’s killing have been detailed. Did anyone in Nashville see or hear anything around South 7th Street that evening that could help investigators?