Shortly after midnight on Friday, May 1st, 2015, officers responded to a shots fired call at Beechwood Terrace Apartments at 1211 Bell Road. When they arrived they found Elijah Nathaniel Butler, who resided at the location, laying in the parking lot of the complex. He had suffered multiple gunshot wounds. A silver sedan was seen leaving the complex at the time of the shooting. Elijah Butler was 18 years old at the time of his death.
If you have any information regarding the murder of Elijah Nathaniel Butler, 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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