Malik Khayyam was 19 when he died on August 4, 2017, in a Talbot’s Corner home on Donald Street. Known locally as DJ Malik, he was struck by a single gunshot wound to the neck and was pronounced dead at the scene. The death was first described as an accident: reports say Khayyam was handling a pistol when an 18-year-old friend, Kenneth Brown, tried to take the weapon and it discharged.

Witnesses at the home — Brown and two others — were described as cooperative with investigators, and no charges were immediately filed. A month later, however, a Nashville grand jury indicted Brown for reckless homicide and he was arrested on a $50,000 bond. Khayyam’s funeral was held August 12, 2017, at Fairfield Missionary Baptist Church in Goodlettsville, Tennessee.

What information do readers who knew Malik or were in that neighborhood in 2017 have that might clarify what happened?