La Vergne Teen Killed In North Nashville Shooting

NASHVILLE, TN — The man killed in a shooting outside a Bordeaux shoe store was a 19-year-old from La Vergne, Metro Police said.

First responders found Damelvian Evans critically wounded in the parking lot of Hot Kicks on Clarksville Pike around 11 p.m. Thursday. Evans later died at the hospital.

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A witness said a group of people were inside the shoe store when three people entered the back door and began shooting, according to police. Myles Owen, 22, one of the people inside the store, was able to wrestle a gun from the trio and fire back at them. It is believed that Evans, along with Ricky Starks, 18, and Dwight Mason Jr., 18 — who were injured — were the intruders.

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