NASHVILLE, TENNESSEE — A man actively involved in a shootout on 22nd Avenue North at just before noon today is thus far not interested in telling police what was going on despite being shot in the neck and left at the scene by his associate.
Thomas H. Smith IV, 20, of Underwood Street, is being treated at Vanderbilt University Medical Center for the non-life threatening wound.
Witnesses reported that Smith was the front seat passenger in a tan/brown sedan that was traveling on 22nd Avenue North at Formosa Street in front of a gray or green Malibu-type car. Occupants of the two vehicles were shooting at each other. Smith got out of the tan/brown vehicle armed with an AR-15 rifle and continued shooting at the other car, the occupants of which were described as male Hispanics. A wounded Smith went to a nearby resident and asked that she call for help.
The two vehicles fled the scene. The AR-15 rifle and a semi-automatic pistol were recovered by officers in the street.