On Sunday, July 20th, 2003 at approximately 8:30pm, Nicolas “Nico” Cruz Medrano and his friend arrived at the Shell Service Station located at 361 Harding Place to pick up a white Nissan Quest van. The van had been driven from Texas for Medrano. While they were all at the service station, a white Nissan Frontier pickup truck pulled up and shot Medrano and his friend and then drove off in the pickup and the van. Medrano was fatally shot and his friend suffered non-fatal injuries. Nicolas “Nico” Cruz Medrano was 31 years old at the time of his death.
If you have any information regarding the murder of Nicolas “Nico” Cruz Medrano, 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