In late April 2025 two young men from Alabama were found shot to death in a wooded area near Percy Priest Lake in Nashville. Nineteen-year-old Amir Landan Wilkerson had traveled from Alabaster, Alabama, with his 18-year-old friend Jamie Valdez Garcia. Wilkerson’s family last saw him on the afternoon of April 27, 2025; a day later a person on a walking trail discovered both bodies in the woods between the Lincoya Bay Apartments and Percy Priest Lake.

The Metropolitan Nashville Police Department’s Homicide Unit determined both men had suffered multiple gunshot wounds and opened a homicide investigation. Wilkerson was identified by a wallet found on his person. The purpose of their trip to Nashville was not immediately clear, and investigators urged anyone with information to come forward.

Does anyone have information about where Wilkerson and Garcia were staying or who they were planning to meet in Nashville?