Daniela Medina was an 18-year-old mother who was shot and killed in West Nashville on the night of January 9, 2019, one day after her birthday. She was in a car in the Rolling Hills Apartments parking lot on Premier Drive around 9 p.m. when she suffered a gunshot wound to the torso. Emergency responders took her to Vanderbilt University Medical Center, where she was pronounced dead; her death was the first homicide recorded in Davidson County that year.

Investigators quickly focused on Daniela’s 17-year-old ex-boyfriend, Osmar Miranda Porras. Police say Porras placed the 911 call after the shooting but gave officers dishonest information, and that he had been banned from the apartment complex. He was arrested and charged with criminal homicide on January 10; police reported recovering the weapon and believing Porras had handled it, while also looking for other possible suspects.

A family GoFundMe was set up to help Daniela’s mother with funeral costs and bills, and authorities asked anyone with information to call Nashville Crime Stoppers at 615-742-7463.

If anyone knew Daniela, her movements that night, or saw something suspicious at Rolling Hills Apartments, please come forward with information.