On the night of June 12, 2018, 27-year-old Dhargham Ateia was shot multiple times in the parking lot of the InTown Suites on Murfreesboro Pike in Antioch, Tennessee. He made it to the doorway of a second-floor room and was found shortly before midnight; he was taken to Vanderbilt University Medical Center, where he later died.

Before he succumbed, Ateia gave his brother a brief description of the shooter as a Black male with dreadlocks. Witnesses reported hearing up to a dozen gunshots, but no more detailed description has been released and authorities have not announced a motive. The case is now handled by the Nashville Police Department’s Cold Case Homicide Unit and remains unsolved; no arrests have been made.

If anyone was in the area that night or has information about a Black male with dreadlocks seen near the motel on June 12, 2018, please contact investigators.