Parolee Michael Dwight Clay Wanted for Friday's Carjacking

Update: Additional arrest warrants have been issued tonight charging Michael Clay with criminal homicide for the murder of Tywane Miller and aggravated assault for shooting the female passenger. Clay is still outstanding at this time.

Michael Dwight Clay, 30, is wanted for last Friday’s carjacking on I-40 that occurred minutes after the murder of a man in the parking lot of a soon to open 7-Eleven market at the intersection of Gallatin and Maxwell Avenues. He is also wanted for questioning in the homicide.

An arrest warrant has been issued charging Clay with aggravated robbery. He is a Tennessee parolee who was convicted of attempted murder in 2011 and sentenced to 18 years.

The investigation shows that Clay was in a white Ford Flex that blocked a Toyota sedan as it was leaving the 7-Eleven parking lot. At least one person got out of the Ford and opened fire on the Toyota. Tywane Miller, 37, the driver, was fatally shot and died at the scene. His female passenger suffered non-life threatening wounds to her jaw and hand.

Following the shooting, an East Precinct officer spotted the Ford Flex on Shelby Avenue at I-24. It fled on the interstate at a high speed, traveled onto I-40 east, and collided with the center interstate retaining wall and four other vehicles (no one was injured) before coming to a stop on the interstate between Fesslers Lane and Elm Hill Pike. The three occupants of the Ford bailed out and went onto the westbound lanes of I-40 where they carjacked a 35-year-old Nashville man who was driving a 2013 Subaru Forester SUV. One of the suspects hit the victim in the head with a gun in the process. He was not seriously hurt.

The Subaru was discovered abandoned late Friday afternoon in a Bordeaux neighborhood.

Anyone seeing Michael Dwight Clay or knowing his whereabouts is asked to contact Crime Stoppers at 615-742-7463. A cash reward is offered.