An 18-year-old was critically injured in a shooting, and still in the hospital in stable condition more than 24 hours later.
Javious Chatman was inside the Music City Central bus station with his best friend, 16-year-old Nathaniel Webb. The mother of Webb said a man rounded a corner, held up a gun and started shooting.
Chatman was hit in the stomach. Webb was grazed by one of the bullets.
"I didn't know what was running through my head," Webb's mother, Angela Jones, said after hearing of the shooting. "I thought it was all bad."
Webb was released just a few hours after being admitted to Vanderbilt University Medical Center. Tuesday, his mother still wants to know why the shooting happened.
"To tell you the truth, I don't know. I really don't know," Jones said when asked if someone would want to target her son or Chatman.
A 911 phone call describes what was a harrowing scene shortly after the shooting. A woman called dispatchers saying two people were on the ground.
By the end of the 60-second phone call, officers arrived.
Jones said the quick response may have saved her son's and his best friend's lives
"Thank God they're both alive because it could have been worse for him and my son," she added.
It's unclear when Chatman will be released from the hospital.
