Crime & Safety

18-Year-Old Killed In Antioch Shooting

Detectives are exploring a drug motive in the shooting death of an 18-year-old in Antioch Thursday.

ANTIOCH, TN β€” An 18-year-old was shot dead in an Antioch apartment complex parking lot Thursday afternoon.

Shortly after 5 p.m. Thursday, Kevion Tate was killed in the parking lot of Hickory Trace Apartments on Hickory Hollow Place. Witnesses told police they heard several shots and saw vehicles speeding out of the parking lot shortly thereafter.

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Tate was found in the parking lot and taken to Vanderbilt University Medical Center, where he died.

Detectives are investigating a drug-related motive.

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