Chancellor Eddins, 35, was fatally shot on the night of Saturday, February 18, 2023, outside the Trvth Lounge on Dickerson Pike in Nashville. Eddins and a friend had been involved in a verbal altercation with another patron inside the club; security reportedly warned them it was dangerous to leave, but the two continued into the parking lot. Around 10:30 p.m. gunfire erupted. Officers found Eddins on the ground just outside the lounge’s entrance with multiple gunshot wounds; he was pronounced dead at the scene. His friend was also shot and taken to a local medical center with non-life-threatening injuries.

Homicide detectives say surveillance video captured a man later identified as LaGarrion Blacksmith firing a weapon. Investigators report the crime lab matched 16 shell casings recovered at the scene to a single gun they linked to Blacksmith. In October 2023 authorities issued arrest warrants charging Blacksmith with criminal homicide, attempted criminal homicide, and being a felon in possession of a weapon. After a search he was arrested in Atlanta on June 10, 2025, extradited to Nashville and held on $400,000 bond. In March 2026 federal prosecutors added a charge of unlawful possession of ammunition by a felon; state and federal cases were proceeding.

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