On Wednesday, December 18th, 1996, shortly after midnight, David Lenord Howard left his girlfriend’s apartment at 1237 Ardee Avenue to go run an errand. About an hour or so later, Howard pulled up to the apartment complex in his girlfriend’s car which he had borrowed. She let him into the apartment and found that he had been shot. He reported that someone had jumped him. It is unknown where Howard was jumped or shot, but he managed to drive back to the apartment and walk to the ambulance when it arrived. Howard succumbed to his injuries and blood loss en route to the hospital. David Lenord Howard was 26 years old at the time of his death.
If you have any information regarding the murder of David Lenord Howard, 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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