Crime & Safety
2nd Teen Charged In 16-Year-Old's Murder
Two teenagers face murder charges in the October shooting death of a 16-year-old girl at Cayce Homes.
NASHVILLE, TN -- Metro Police arrested another teenage boy in the October shooting death of a 16-year-old girl caught in the crossfire at James Cayce Homes.
Jamarius Hill, 16, was arrested Tuesday and charged with murder in the Oct. 8 shooting of Deberianah Begley. Antonio Gordon-Jenkins, 17, was arrested and charged with Deberianah's murder 12 days after her death.
Witnesses told investigators Begley was sitting on a porch in the courtyard where two groups of young men had gathered and that there were three or four men in the groups that squared off before the shooting and that the gunshots initially came from just one side. Begley was hit as she ran for cover, witnesses told investigators.
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Both Hill and Gordon-Jenkins are being held in juvenile detention.
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