In the late hours of a Monday in Nashville, 16-year-old Marterious Boyd, a male, was fatally wounded. On November 15, 2021, he was left at General Hospital, having been transported there in a stolen gray pickup truck with a gunshot wound to his head. Shortly after his arrival, he was transferred to Vanderbilt University Medical Center, where he succumbed to his injury and was pronounced dead.
The Metropolitan Nashville Police Department located the stolen pickup truck at 15th Avenue North and Jo Johnston Avenue. The vehicle had been reported stolen the previous Friday from Keystone Avenue, taken with a stolen key fob. Investigators began the task of identifying and locating the other individuals who were in the truck with Boyd to understand the sequence of events that led to the fatal shot.
Months later, in July 2022, a breakthrough in the case came when detectives from the TITANS unit arrested two brothers who were known to have been with Boyd inside the stolen truck.
Deandre Jordan, 22, and his brother, Kejuan Jordan-Cole, 20, were taken into custody. At the time of their arrest, the outstanding warrants were for auto theft related to being in the stolen vehicle with Boyd.
During a surveillance operation at a residence on South 4th Street, detectives observed Deandre Jordan arriving in a different stolen vehicle, a Ford Fusion. He was arrested and found to be in possession of a loaded pistol, fentanyl, cocaine, and oxycodone pills. His brother, Kejuan, was arrested at the same location on the outstanding auto theft warrant. Deandre Jordan faced charges including two counts of auto theft, felony drug counts, and felony gun possession. Kejuan Jordan-Cole was charged with a single count of auto theft and was later released on bond.
While the brothers were apprehended, the investigation into Marterious Boyd's death continued. Homicide detectives believe the gunfire that killed the teenager originated from within the stolen pickup truck he occupied with the Jordan brothers and potentially others. As of the announcement of the brothers' arrest on auto theft charges, the homicide case remained under active investigation. There has been no further public information regarding murder charges or convictions in direct relation to the death of Marterious Boyd.
