NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WTVF) — Police have asked the public's help in locating a 23-year-old man after a shooting that injured his 2-year-old son in East Nashville.
The shooting was reported at about 9:10 p.m. Monday at the Oakwood Flats Apartments on Oakwood Avenue. Police said 23-year-old Jeffery Thorpe is wanted for questioning in the case.
Police said said the boy, identified as Anthony Thorpe, is in "extremely critical condition." They said his mother — 23-year-old Aaliyah Scales — told officers that Jeffery Thorpe was visiting and put his gun on a bed, where Anthony picked it up and fired it. Anthony was struck in the head.
According to police, Thorpe drove Scales and Anthony to Skyline Medical Center and dropped them off but did not return. The boy was later transferred to Monroe Carell Jr. Children’s Hospital at Vanderbilt.
Police said the gun has not been recovered.
Detectives said Jeffery Thorpe is also wanted on an outstanding aggravated assault warrant for allegedly pointing a handgun at a car with Scales and Anthony in it during an argument last June.
Anyone seeing him or knowing his whereabouts was asked to call the Department of Emergency Communication at 615-862-8600.
