Homicide Unit detectives are investigating Sunday’s 2:40 a.m. fatal shooting of a 17-year-old on Millwood Drive at the Blue Note Apartments. Jesus Daniel Martinez Garcia was taken by private vehicle to Vanderbilt University Medical Center where he died.
Detectives located an abandoned pickup truck at the scene where Garcia, a passenger in the vehicle, had been shot by an unknown suspect. The driver of the truck, Elmer Chacon, 29, told detectives he pulled onto the property when he allegedly began taking gunfire and ran from the vehicle.
Garcia’s family arrived at the scene and took him to Vanderbilt.
Another passenger sustained minor injuries in the shooting. He was taken to Vanderbilt where he was treated.
Chacon is charged with contributing to the delinquency of a minor.