Terry D. Stewart, a 30-year-old man from Nashville, was shot outside the Buena Vista Pike apartment complex in the early hours of December 27, 2015. Police were called to the 2400 block of Buena Vista Pike around 1:30 a.m. after reports of shots fired; Stewart was found heavily bleeding and slumped near the front stairs to an apartment unit and later died at Vanderbilt University Medical Center. Witnesses described Stewart as having been among a small group shortly before the shooting, with one man allegedly showing off a pistol in the moments before the blasts.

Officers documented two primary areas at the scene: the porch/parking-lot area where Stewart was discovered and a nearby playground. Investigators collected a spent projectile, Stewart’s clothing and cell phone, and seven cartridge casings from the secondary area.

The autopsy described a single fatal wound entering the left buttock, fracturing the pelvis and tearing abdominal organs before exiting, showing how one shot proved catastrophic. No named suspect had been publicly identified in the immediate scramble to determine who fired the shots; detectives pursued people who might have fled and interviewed two men stopped about half an hour after the shooting. Did anyone at the Buena Vista Pike complex that night see more that could identify who was carrying the pistol?