In a quiet home on Bixler Avenue in Madison, Tennessee, the life of 17-year-old Amya Finney was tragically cut short on the morning of Sunday, October 12, 2025. A Black female with her whole life ahead of her, Amya was just two months pregnant, filled with the nervous excitement of becoming a mother. That morning, a sense of unease prompted her to call her own mother for a ride from her boyfriend's residence.
The call, however, ended abruptly amidst the sounds of a heated argument, leaving her mother with a chilling premonition. Shortly after, a hang-up 911 call from the same location alerted authorities.
Responding officers arrived to a devastating scene. They found Amya in a bedroom, suffering from a single gunshot wound to her abdomen. She was rushed to Skyline Medical Center, but her injuries were too severe. Both Amya and her unborn child were pronounced dead, a heartbreaking end to two lives that had barely begun. The quiet Sunday morning was shattered, leaving a community in mourning and a family grappling with an unimaginable loss. Friends and family remembered her as a young woman with a big heart and an even bigger smile, her dreams of motherhood tragically stolen.
In the hours following the shooting, the narrative of what happened inside the Bixler Avenue home began to unfold. The suspect was identified as Amya’s 20-year-old boyfriend, Amare Ramey. He later turned himself in at the Metro Nashville Police Department's North Precinct. During questioning, Ramey claimed that the shooting was a tragic accident, stating that the firearm had discharged while he was handling it. Despite his claims, investigators charged him with two counts of criminal homicide, one for Amya and another for their unborn child.
The investigation revealed that while there was no documented history of domestic violence between the couple, Ramey was not a stranger to law enforcement. At the time of the shooting, he was on four years of supervised probation for several serious charges, including aggravated burglary, carjacking, and aggravated assault, stemming from an arrest in March 2024. As the legal process began, Amare Ramey was jailed, held on a one-million-dollar bond, leaving a community to await justice for a young life and the future she was never able to realize.
