In the winter of 2015, a burst of violence in Clarksville, Tennessee, ended the life of Montrel Quintres Patterson, a 22-year-old male. On the evening of January 20th, at an apartment complex on Lansinger Lane, gunfire erupted, leaving a scene of chaos and bloodshed. When police arrived, they found Patterson deceased and three other individuals suffering from gunshot wounds. The injured included a 57-year-old woman and a 23-year-old man, who were both critically wounded and airlifted to Vanderbilt University Medical Center, and a 48-year-old woman who was taken to a local hospital.
In the immediate aftermath of the shooting, investigators quickly identified a person of interest: 22-year-old Timothy David Shoffner. Believed to be directly involved in the incident, law enforcement announced that Shoffner had several existing arrest warrants and was thought to be in the Clarksville or Ashland City area. A description of Shoffner was released to the public with a plea for information on his whereabouts.
While the investigation into Patterson's death was launched, a definitive public resolution to the case remains elusive from available online sources. There are no readily accessible news reports or official records detailing an arrest of Shoffner for the homicide of Montrel Patterson, nor any information about formal charges, a trial, or a conviction in this specific case.
However, Timothy David Shoffner did not remain a free man. In April of 2016, he was arrested for his involvement in a brutal home invasion in Ashland City. In that case, Shoffner and two accomplices bound a man with duct tape, beat him, and set his house on fire. In 2019, Shoffner was convicted of attempted second-degree murder, aggravated arson, especially aggravated kidnapping, aggravated robbery, and theft, resulting in a lengthy prison sentence. Despite this conviction for a separate and violent crime, the official outcome of the investigation into the death of Montrel Quintres Patterson remains unclear from the available information.
