Alert police work led to this morning’s arrest of Tristan Williams, 19, after Hermitage Precinct officers spotted him driving a Hyundai Elantra that had been reported stolen from a Nashboro Boulevard apartment. The Elantra was also a suspect car used during vehicle break-ins on Oakwell Farms Lane.
Officers followed Williams to the James Cayce Homes on South 7th Street in East Nashville where two occupants fled on foot. Williams was apprehended a short time later. He admitted to being in the Elantra and that he knew the car had been stolen. A device used to break out windows and a stolen handgun were recovered from the Hyundai. The firearm had been taken during an October 15th vehicle burglary.
In this case, Williams is charged with vehicle theft, theft of a firearm, evading arrest, and possession of burglary tools. He also had outstanding warrants for domestic assault, assault, and criminal trespass in a separate December 11th incident. Williams remains jailed in lieu of $40,000 bond.
In 2021, Homicide Unit detectives charged Williams, then 16, with two counts of criminal homicide and one count of attempted criminal homicide for the November 24, 2020, shootings of three juveniles inside a stolen pickup truck as it traveled on I-24 east near downtown. The vehicle was stolen days earlier from Cain Harbor Drive. The keys had been left inside it. Williams was then booked into juvenile detention.
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Tristan Williams, 19