NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WTVF) — A teenager is dead after a shooting outside of an club in South Nashville. It happened Sunday morning around 5:30 a.m.
Metro police identified the victim as 18-year-old Ashley Dominguez. She was in the back of a car when the shooting happened.
Witnesses told police a group of people got into a heated argument outside of Hunnii Pot Bar & Lounge, an after hours club on Murfreesboro Pike. That argument escalated and police say someone starting shooting at a car filled with multiple people.
The driver took off but pulled into a parking lot after realizing several of the passengers were hit. Dominguez and two other teens, both 19-year-olds, were rushed to the hospital.
The 19-year-olds were treated after being shot and released, but Dominguez was unable to recover.
Police continue to investigate the shooter involved and witnesses. If you have any information, call Crime Stoppers.
This story by Aaron Cantrell reminds me of my first school in Dyersburg, TN. I was a student at Bruce School from Kindergarten to second grade until the school system was integrated. My parents graduated from this K-12 school in 1960 in one of the city's African American communities. After sitting empty for several years, part of the school was demolished while the rest was renovated and now serves as a community center for the Bruce community in Dyersburg. A local pastor is now trying to do something similar in the Cemetery community in Rutherford Co.
-Lelan Statom
