3 Dead, Including 2 Kids, In North Nashville Shooting, Carjacking

NASHVILLE, TN -- A 24-year-old is charged with killing three people, including a 5-year-old and an 8-year-old, during a crime spree that involved an apparent domestic situation and a carjacking in North Nashville Friday afternoon.

Police say Queshan Brooks, 24, shot five people, killing 5-year-old Samaii Daniel, 8-year-old Sammarre Daniel, and 70-year-old Robert Payne. He is charged with three counts of murder.

Metro Police say they arrived at a home on Jenkins Court around 4 p.m. Friday and found the two Daniels girls and their 45-year-old mother, Darnykka Daniels, lying shot in the front yard. Samaii was pronounced dead on the scene. Sammarre died after she was taken to Vanderbilt University Medical Center. Darnykka Daniels is at VUMC with serious but non-life-threatening injuries.

According to police, Brooks then ran away after the shooting, which investigators believe was a domestic violence situation, and carjacked two men in a gold Impala on 10th Avenue North. Brooks shot Payne, who was driving, and his passenger, 52-year-old Patrick Hancock. Hancock was shot and pistol-whipped and taken to the hospital.

Shortly thereafter, police found the Impala turned sideways on Interstate 40 near 51st Avenue and followed footprints in the snow that led them to Brooks, who was arrested on the scene.

A short time later, officers found the Impala sideways on Interstate 40 at 51st Avenue. The officers reportedly saw footsteps in the snow that led them to the 24-year-old, who was arrested at the scene.

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