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Yoel Sarmiento Lopez

Case from Nashville, TN dated Jul 24, 2023

Victim Details

Yoel Sarmiento Lopez

Male

Hispanic / Latino

Nashville

TN

2023-07-24

21

Yoel

Sarmiento Lopez

07/24/2026

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In the early hours of a summer morning in Nashville, Tennessee, a young man's life was tragically cut short. Twenty-one-year-old Yoel Sarmiento Lopez, a Hispanic male, was fatally shot on July 24, 2023. At approximately 1:30 a.m., Lopez was sitting in the driver's seat of a parked Nissan Altima near the intersection of Sterling Boone Drive and Jay Street, enjoying music with his cousin and an acquaintance.

The tranquility of the moment was shattered when a single gunshot rang out from wit ...
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  • WZTV: Man playing with A-R pistol arrested for shooting, killing man in South Nashville
  • WKRN News 2: Arrest made after man found shot outside South Nashville gas station
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