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2 Injured, Charged With Criminal Homicide

Posted at 2:33 PM, May 19, 2017
and last updated 2017-05-20 23:50:29-04

One person was killed and two others were injured, including a teen, in an East Nashville shooting, and now the teen and a 20-year-old have been charged with criminal homicide.

According to dispatch, the shooting happened at 622 South 8th Street at the James A. Cayce Homes on Friday afternoon.

Metro Nashville Police Department officials said a shootout took place between two groups.

Witnesses said the shootout allegedly happened when an argument broke out between the people in the vehicle and others outside of an apartment at the complex.

Officials said the man in the front passenger seat was 26-year-old Travis Rosemond, who was shot multiple times. He was transported to Vanderbilt University Medical Center, where he later died from his injuries. A .38 caliber revolver was found in the car's floorboard near Rosemond's feet.

The shootout took placed between Rosemond and two other people, both of whom were injured. A 14-year-old boy, who police identified as Mario Woodard, was shot in arm, and a 20-year-old man, identified as Montel Sowell, was shot in the stomach. Both were taken to Vanderbilt University Medical Center.

Surveillance video showed Sowell allegedly tossing what appeared to be a handgun to another young man who fled from the scene.

Saturday, officials confirmed Woodard was charged in Juvenile Court with criminal homicide, and Sowell will be charged with murder once he has been released from the hospital.

The investigation remained ongoing.