🌱 Spray-Painted Hate Messages On Nashville Homes + Shooting At Motel

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Here are the top three stories in Nashville today:

1. On Mar. 19, dozens of Sylvan Park residents helped erase swastikas and other hate messages that were spray-painted on the side of five homes in the Nashville neighborhood. The Metro Nashville Police Department said at least two individuals were responsible for the spray-painting on homes along Westlawn Drive, Nebraska Avenue, Wyoming Avenue, Colorado Avenue, and Idaho Avenue. Barbara Dab, a Sylvan Park resident and member of the Jewish Federation of Greater Nashville said, "Literally, my stomach felt sick, I wanted to cry. It’s frightening, it’s outrageous, it’s horrifying, and you just don’t know what’s going to happen next." While adults helped erase the hate messages, local children drew messages of inclusion on poster boards in the front yard. (WKRN)
2. Nashville police have taken a suspect into custody for a shooting that occurred yesterday, Mar. 20, at the Econo Lodge on Percy Priest Drive off Bell Road. According to police, the victim has "serious but non-critical injuries." (WKRN)
3. According to data from rental and property marketplace Rent.com, Tennessee is
   among the top states for the largest year-over-year rent increases in the country. And the Nashville-Davidson-Murfreesboro-Franklin market is the sixth-highest metro for rent price increases YoY at 9.01 percent. (Fox 17)

Today and tomorrow in Nashville:

Tuesday, March 21

• Three Times A Lady At 3rd & Lindsley Bar & Grill (6:00 PM)
• Grand Ole Opry At Opry House (7:00 PM)

Wednesday, March 22

• Irish Music With The Sternwheelers At McNamara's Irish Pub And Restaurant (6:00 PM)

From my notebook:

• A freeze warning is in effect until 8:00 a.m. today, Mar. 21. However, the weather will get a lot warmer later this week in Nashville, with temperatures likely to reach 80 degrees on Thursday, Mar. 23! (WSMV 4)
• A 1990s rock band, 3 Doors Down, is coming to Nashville for their album anniversary tour! The band will perform at Ascend Amphitheater on Aug. 18. (WKRN News 2)
• Three individuals from Nashville were sentenced to prison for importing drugs into the United States from Mexico worth over $1.6 million. Elias Herrera, 31, Liz Jomayra Diaz-Colon, 23, and Jonathan Guemez, 30, pleaded guilty to importing heroin and fentanyl into the country. (WKRN News 2)

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— Nicole Fallon-Peek

About me: Nicole Fallon-Peek is a journalist and copywriter with a degree in Media, Culture and Communication from New York University. She has served as a freelance reporter, managing editor, copy editor, and editorial director for a variety of B2B news outlets. She currently co-owns and operates content creation agency Lightning Media Partners.