An 18-year-old, Malachi Rybka, was fatally shot inside an apartment in the Edgehill Homes neighborhood of Nashville on the afternoon of June 11, 2024. The shooting occurred at about 2:15 p.m. in a residence on the 1000 block of Edgehill Avenue when a gunman entered and opened fire. Rybka was struck multiple times and died at the scene; the shooter fled immediately after.

Metro Nashville Police Department homicide detectives developed leads that pointed to the attack being targeted. Investigators enlisted the Specialized Investigations Division TITANS Unit and focused their inquiry on 24-year-old Dtarious Watkins. Detectives allege Watkins traveled from the Napier-Sudekum area to the Edgehill apartment to commit the crime and returned that night to an apartment on Charles E. Davis Boulevard. He was located and taken into custody there; officers recovered three pistols and found evidence that clothing believed to have been worn during the shooting had been burned.

Watkins was charged with Malachi Rybka’s murder. If anyone has information about the shooting, or knew Malachi, please share what you know.