Devin Tywaun Green, a 39-year-old Black man from Nashville, Tennessee, was drawn into violence on an ordinary Saturday afternoon that would not let go of him for months. On October 17, 2015, as he drove a Cadillac Escalade toward the southbound entrance ramp of Ellington Parkway, gunfire suddenly tore through the vehicle, striking both him and the passenger beside him.
Investigators later described a dark, four-door sedan—said to resemble a Nissan Maxima, with tinted windows—pulling up along the passenger side of the Escalade. From the driver’s window, shots were fired into Green’s vehicle before the sedan disappeared, leaving the roadway behind and a wounded driver fighting to survive. The passenger’s injuries were described as minor, but Green’s were not.
From that day forward, the story became one of endurance as much as it was of a shooting. Green was hospitalized and then remained in a care facility, living with the damage done by the attack. Nearly three months after the shots were fired, on January 13, 2016, he died from complications tied to the wounds he suffered that afternoon.
The case has been held out to the public as a cold-case homicide investigation, with police continuing to ask for help identifying whoever was inside the sedan and what led to the ambush at the ramp. Publicly available case information does not name any suspects, nor does it describe any arrests or charges connected to Green’s death. Instead, the most concrete lead remains the description of the suspected vehicle and the brief, violent moment when it pulled alongside him and opened fire.
