Shortly before 7:00am on Monday October 8th, 1973 Neely Hawkins was shot multiple times as he approached his beige Plymouth Fury parked on Presslor Drive, in the Preston Taylor Public Housing area, which has since been reconstructed. He was leaving his girlfriend’s home to head to work. His girlfriend believed that this shooting was retaliation for a shooting Hawkins was involved in several nights before. Neely Hawkins was 43 years old at the time of his death.
If you have any information regarding the murder of Neely Hawkins, please contact the Cold Case Homicide Unit at MNPDColdCase@nashville.gov
You can also call the Nashville Police Department’s Crime Stoppers Division anonymously at 615-742-7463
We feel it is important to put a face to the name. If you have a photograph you would like to submit to be posted (as an addition or substitution) please email: MNPDColdCase@nashville.gov