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Trel Gates

Case from Nashville, TN dated Dec 30, 2016

Victim Details

Trel Gates

March 28, 2022

Male

Black / African American

Nashville

TN

2016-12-30

2016-12-30

23

Trel

Gates

07/30/2026

1


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Trel Ahviante Gates was 23, a Black male from Nashville, Tennessee, when violence found Gates in the early evening of Friday, December 30, 2016. Just after 5:30 p.m., officers were dispatched to the Chimney Top Apartments at 289 Chimney Top Drive after reports of gunshots. In the breezeway near apartment 295, Gates was found down, shot multiple times, and pronounced dead at the scene.

In the moments leading up to the shooting, police said Gates had been inside an apartment and then walke ...
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  • Man In Custody Following Brother's Shooting - News Channel 5
  • Victim identified in fatal Antioch shooting - The Tennessean
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