On the evening of Saturday, September 22, 2012, 30-year-old Joshua Mclean was fatally shot in the parking lot of Nashville West Shopping Center at 6814 Charlotte Pike. Mclean, a home-builder and partner at Kenner-McLean Development, had gone to meet a buyer with his brother to sell two handguns after responding to an online ad. As Mclean walked to the rear of the vehicle to retrieve the firearms, two men who had replied to the ad produced a weapon in what became an apparent robbery attempt. Mclean was shot and later died at a hospital; his brother, who had stayed in the car, heard the shots and found him wounded. The assailants, described only as two Black men, fled in a vehicle without taking the handguns.

Investigators collected evidence at the scene, including the firearms Mclean had brought, and released surveillance images of the suspect vehicle. Despite public appeals and an active homicide investigation, no arrests have been announced and the case remains unsolved in the Nashville Police Department cold case files. If anyone was in the Nashville West Shopping Center that evening or has information about the vehicle or the two men, please come forward.