Around 11:00pm on Friday, September 19th, 2008, Carlos Alberto Tejeda and three friends were walking down D’Ville Drive when a blue Nissan Altima drove slowly up to the group. The passenger window was down and a Hispanic male in the passenger seat spoke in Spanish to Tejeda. Tejeda approached the car and began to bend down to speak to the occupants of the car when someone in the car yelled out, “Brown Pride 218!” before shooting Tejeda. Tejeda was able to run a short distance before collapsing near 1704 D’Ville Drive. The three friends all scattered and were also shot at as they fled but escaped injury. The two males in the car were described as in their late teens and Hispanic with shaved heads. Both the car and the two young males matched a carjacking incident just prior to this shooting of a 2002 blue Nissan Altima, which was found just after midnight having been set on fire. Carlos Alberto Tejeda was 16 years old at the time of his death.
If you have any information regarding the murder of Carlos Alberto Tejeda, please contact the Cold Case Homicide Unit at MNPDColdCase@nashville.gov
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