Carlos Alberto Jr. Tejeda was 16 when he was shot and killed on the night of September 19, 2008, in Nashville. He was walking with three friends along D’Ville Drive when a blue Nissan Altima slowly approached. A Hispanic male in the passenger seat called to Tejeda in Spanish; as Tejeda bent down to speak with the occupants a voice from the car shouted Brown Pride 218 and shots were fired. Tejeda ran a short distance before collapsing; his friends, who were also fired upon while fleeing, escaped without injury.

Witnesses described the shooters as two Hispanic males in their late teens with shaved heads. The blue Nissan Altima had been carjacked shortly before the shooting and was found shortly after midnight burned. Investigators linked the killing to MS-13 activity in Nashville as the gang pushed to establish dominance, and the homicide became part of a series of violent crimes tied to that effort. Despite later federal and local investigations into the gang, the people who fired on Tejeda have not been publicly identified or arrested and the case remains unsolved. If anyone knew Carlos, saw the car that night, or has information about Brown Pride 218 or the burned Altima, please come forward.