In the early hours of May 23, 2017, two men were shot at the James Cayce Homes in East Nashville. Officers arriving at 12:50 a.m. found 22-year-old Brandon Jordan lying near an apartment porch with an upper-torso gunshot wound; he was pronounced dead at the scene. A second victim, 38-year-old Eric Allen, who lived at the apartment, was found in the doorway with multiple chest wounds and died shortly after arriving at a local hospital.

Investigators treated robbery as the suspected motive and subsequently obtained indictments in the double homicide. Tramell R. Sparkman, 28, of Columbia, was indicted on two counts of murder and also faced charges tied to an attempted burglary and another shooting on later days. Two women, Taylor Roberts, 19, and Shakiria Webster, 20, were each indicted on two counts of felony murder and two counts of robbery; Roberts was arrested in Maury County and Webster was in custody in Sumner County on an unrelated matter at the time of her indictment.

Anyone with information about the events at James Cayce Homes that night is asked to come forward.