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Michael Pillow, a 22-year-old Black man, was fatally shot on the evening of May 6, 2014, in the breezeway of the Summerwind apartment complex in the Hermitage area of Nashville, Tennessee. He was visiting a relative when an altercation that began as a verbal dispute between Pillow’s friend Nicholas Edmondson and resident Eric Carter escalated into violence. After Carter summoned family members, a group including his brothers William and Demetrice Carter arrived and an ambush followed; Pillow was shot multiple times and died of those wounds.

Law enforcement quickly identified suspects and charged people connected to the incident. Eric Carter, 22 at the time, was arrested on May 14, 2014, and later convicted by a jury in October 2016 of first-degree premeditated murder for Pillow’s death and the attempted first-degree murder of Nicholas Edmondson; he was sentenced to life. Indictments and later convictions followed for William and Demetrice Carter on felony murder counts and for their mother, Verdal Miller, on facilitation of first-degree murder.

Are there witnesses or residents from the Summerwind complex who remember the night of May 6, 2014, or who can add detail about what led to the ambush?