Mahesh Thakorbhai Zaveri

Mahesh Thakorbhai Zaveri, 50, a White man from Nashville, Tennessee, was found late on the night of Friday, July 24, 2009, lying in the roadway on Briley Park Boulevard near Brick Church Pike. The discovery was made by a passerby, the kind of moment that turns an ordinary drive into a nightmare—someone in the road, motionless, and the sudden realization that it was an emergency no one could ignore.

Police arrived to find Zaveri suffering from a gunshot wound. He was rushed to the hospi ...