On the evening of June 8, 2023, 18-year-old Demon L. Floyd Jr. was found suffering from a gunshot wound in the parking lot of the Hickory Creek Apartments on Vultee Boulevard in Nashville after a witness reported gunshots and a person down. He was taken to Vanderbilt University Medical Center and later died of his injuries. Investigators believe Floyd had arranged to meet someone in the parking lot that evening.

Homicide detectives developed leads quickly and authorities say a suspect was located the next day, June 9, 2023. Thirty-one-year-old O’Neil Boyd was arrested at an apartment complex on Millwood Drive and charged with criminal homicide; investigators have said they believe the meeting was for a marijuana transaction that turned violent. Boyd was held on a $500,000 bond.

Floyd, born February 7, 2005, was a recent graduate and three-sport athlete at East Nashville Magnet High School and is remembered by family as a loving, ambitious young man. Does anyone who knew Demon or who was in that area the evening of June 8 have information to share?