A 16-year-old wanted in a violent carjacking has been taken into custody.
Officials with the Metro Nashville Police Department said 16-year-old Zackari Tennant was arrested after police on the ground and in the air coordinated their efforts to take him into custody.
Tennant was one of the suspects in a violent carjacking that left a 32-year-old Nashville woman with gunshot wounds in November 2015.
Detectives said they used GPS to track a Dodge Durango that had been stolen Wednesday morning from Americas Best Value Inn on Wallace Road.
A pilot relayed the direction to ground units as they kept their distance until they learned Tennant was behind the wheel of the vehicle.
Authorities said Tennant has had a history of evading police. He fled from the stolen vehicle on Blue Hole Road and ran into a wooded area.
Officers said they were able to take Tennant into custody without further incident.
According to reports, Tennant refused to speak to detectives. He’s been charged in Juvenile Court with especially aggravated robbery.
Authorities said Tennant was accused of shooting Tiffany Hindman outside her Apache Trail apartment on Friday, November 20.
The victim told detectives she was confronted in the breezeway of her apartment building by two armed individuals who demanded her car keys.
They then ran away with her keys and opened fire, leaving Hindman seriously wounded. They fled in her Nissan Sentra, which was later recovered in January in South Nashville.
Officials confirmed Tennant was also a suspect in multiple other crimes in Nashville and the surrounding area.
