On Thursday, September 14th, 2017, officers responded to a report of shots fired shortly after 8:00pm. When they arrived at the Riverchase Apartments on Joseph Avenue, they found Kennda Watkins, lying in the parking lot deceased from a gunshot wound. Two young black men, one wearing a white or light gray hoodie and the other wearing a black and red hoodie, were seen approaching Watkins, shooting him, and them fleeing the scene on foot. Kennda Watkins was 17 years old at the time of his death.
If you have any information regarding the murder of Kennda 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