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Joeuan Booker, a 31-year-old Black man, was killed late on February 21, 2015, after gunfire erupted inside Vanderbilt University’s Wesley Place Garage in Nashville. Campus police responding to reports of shots found Booker with an apparent gunshot wound; he later died. Surveillance footage described in reporting shows multiple vehicles arriving, occupants walking to a nearby business, then returning when a sudden exchange of gunfire broke out. Video reportedly captured Booker trading shots with another armed person identified as a passenger in a tan 2006 Ford F-150, and a suspect was seen running on foot away from campus.

Investigators treated the shooting as nonrandom and said Booker and the shooter likely knew each other, with a possible drug-related dispute cited in early reports. The truck became a focus after it was voluntarily turned over, and Metro Police later named Christopher James Smith as a suspected second gunman; he was described as not charged at that time and refusing to cooperate. An obituary listed surviving family members and visitation in late February 2015. Does anyone have information about the people or vehicles seen that night who could fill in the gaps investigators were still asking about?