Linda Ann Williams, 61, was killed by a single gunshot that entered her apartment in the James Cayce Homes in Nashville on the evening of February 19, 2023. The bullet came through an upstairs bathroom window around 10 p.m.; she was taken to Vanderbilt University Medical Center and died there. Williams was born March 25, 1961, and is described as a cherished mother and grandmother.

Surveillance footage showed a man leaving an apartment across South 6th Street, firing a weapon toward Williams’s building and then returning inside. Officers executed a follow-up at that apartment and found two firearms. A 40-year-old man, later identified as Montez Dennis, was taken into custody. During an interview he said he was outside trying to unjam the gun when it discharged; he was charged with criminal homicide in Williams’s death.

Anyone who saw or heard shots in the James Cayce Homes area that night or has information about the events leading up to the shooting is asked to come forward.