At some point between 10:00pm and 11:00pm on Friday, March 2nd, 1984, Willie Lemont Beasley and a group of friends were walking back from a market on Dickerson Pike when an argument broke out. Beasley broke up the argument between the two men involved and the group proceeded to head toward home. As they reached the corner of Evanston Avenue and Stainback Avenue when a black car with three black males began shooting at the group. Beasley and one other friend were struck by the gunfire. The group scattered and ran and Beasley made it to his back yard before collapsing. His step-father found him lying in the yard deceased the next morning and notified police. Willie Lemont Beasley was 19 years old at the time of his death.
If you have any information regarding the murder of Willie Lemont Beasley, 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
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