On the evening of April 30, 2018, 17-year-old La Vergne High School junior Yudjy Cherubin arranged to buy an iPhone through the LetGo app and drove to a parking lot on George Buchanan Drive with his younger siblings. At about 7:40 p.m. he was shot in the face in what authorities described as a robbery gone wrong. He was taken to Vanderbilt University Medical Center and died later that evening. The shooting was witnessed by his younger brother and sister, who were in the car.

Investigators identified two 17-year-old suspects, Bryan Berry and Marquez Hughes, linking them to the scene through messages on the victim’s phone. One suspect was arrested within hours and the second the next day; the victim’s younger brother identified one teen as the shooter. Both were initially charged as juveniles with first-degree murder and conspiracy, then transferred to adult court and held at the Rutherford County Adult Detention Center.

If anyone witnessed the April 30 meeting or has information about the events that night, please share what is known.