Shortly before midnight on Saturday, June 3rd, 2017, police were notified that a man had been shot and was lying inside the door of his apartment at 935 16th Ave. North. Officers responded to the scene and found Robert Watkins deceased on the floor of his apartment. Watkins had been shot multiple times. Gunshots were heard earlier that night, around 10:00pm. Robert Lamont Watkins was 23 years old at the time of his death.
If you have any information regarding the murder of Robert Lamont Watkins, 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