19-Year-Old Stabbed To Death At Murfreesboro Road Market, Suspect Arrested

NASHVILLE, TN — A 19-year-old man was found dead, stabbed in the neck, near a Murfreesboro Road market early Thursday morning.

Passersby found the body of Joshua Taylor lying in a pool of blood at Gold Star Market at 974 Murfreesboro Road around 2:20 Thursday morning. Detectives believe Taylor had been stabbed behind nearby A&H Auto Market, but ran to the market's parking lot where he died. (For more updates on this story and free news alerts for your neighborhood, sign up for your local Middle Tennessee Patch morning newsletter.)

Taylor had been stabbed in the neck and police said they learned that a suspect may have been hiding at a homeless camp on Kermit Drive. Detectives said Taylor and Mitchell Tarver, 49, had some sort of argument and they believe Tarver pulled a folding knife and stabbed Taylor.

Tarver was arrested and charged with murder. He is being held on a $500,000 bond. Detectives say Tarver was carrying the knife which they believe is the murder weapon.

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