At approximately 11:00pm on Wednesday, December 17th, 1986, Marion “Mike” Lee Grills was shot multiple times in the parking lot behind the Marina Manor Apartments located at 401 North 8th Street. He was found lying near his yellow 2-door 1975 Pontiac Lemans. Grills had been an inmate at the Tennessee State Prison since 1966 for charges of armed robbery, and was on work release pending executive clemency when he was killed. Marion L. Grills was 56 years old at the time of his death.
If you have any information regarding the murder of Marion “Mike” Lee Grills, 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