Jillian Ludwig was 18 and a Belmont University student when she was shot while walking in a Nashville park on the evening of November 7, 2023. She was on the phone with her mother and suddenly said she had been shot; the mother heard the phone drop and called for help. Officers found Jillian with a gunshot wound to the head and she was taken to Vanderbilt University Medical Center, where she died the next day.

Investigators traced the shooting to a nearby public housing complex. Surveillance footage showed a man later identified as 29-year-old Shaquille Taylor firing from the passenger side of a car at another vehicle; police believe a stray bullet from that exchange struck Jillian nearly half a mile away. Taylor was arrested and charged with criminal homicide. Reports note he had been out on his own recognizance on an unrelated charge at the time and that a judge set a high bond after the homicide arrest.

What information can anyone share about Jillian’s movements in the park that evening or about the vehicles seen in that area?