Joe Ervin Hunter, 60, was fatally shot in Nashville on the evening of Thursday, October 22, 2015. The shooting happened around 9 p.m. near the intersection of 17th Avenue North and Herman Street, close to the Fisk University campus. Responding officers found Hunter with multiple gunshot wounds; he was taken to Vanderbilt University Medical Center, where he died.

Police treated the area—a mix of residential homes and university buildings—as an active homicide scene, canvassing for witnesses and searching for evidence. Motive and suspect information have not been established, and no arrests or charges have been announced. The case remains an unsolved homicide.

If anyone was in the 17th Avenue North and Herman Street area that night or has information about Joe Hunter’s death, please come forward.