Just after midnight on Friday, December 13th, 1985, Johnny E. Ransom pulled his blue 4-door 1977 Mercury Monarch under the carport behind his residence at 1061 2nd Avenue South. As he got out of his car, Ransom was fatally shot multiple times. Ransom had been at J. R.’s bar and pool hall located at the corner of Lewis Street and Hart Street before returning home. The brown billfold Ransom was known to carry was not found with him. Johnny E. Ransom was 62 years old at the time of his death.
If you have any information regarding the murder of Johnny E. Ransom, 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