Eric Gray, a 23-year-old African American man, was shot and killed in the evening of December 17, 2016, in the parking lot of the Cayce Homes apartment complex in East Nashville. The shooting followed a verbal altercation that began when Gray was talking with people in a car and two other men started shouting from across the parking lot. Marris Wynne and his brother Maurice became involved as the argument escalated and gunfire erupted. A bullet struck Gray in the chest; he was taken to Vanderbilt University Medical Center and pronounced dead. Maurice Wynne was wounded but survived.

Metro Police detectives described the shooters as two Black men in their late teens or early twenties, but no arrests have been announced and the case has grown cold. Eric was a devoted father to a young daughter and his death left his family searching for answers. Was anyone in the Cayce Homes area that night able to see or hear something that could reopen the investigation?