Who killed Ryan Trent? Nashville man shot dead on roadway
Nov 9, 2017
A truck loses control on an empty stretch of highway, crashing into the woods near Nashville, Tennessee on Sept. 28.
The driver, Ryan Trent, who was about get married, was pronounced dead at the scene.
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Ryan's family is devastated by the deadly crash. At first, it appears he had fallen asleep at the wheel driving home at 2 a.m. from his late shift as a supervisor at a parking garage.
"We didn't find out until later that night that he had been shot," said Ryan's mother Sharon Trent.
"The medical examiner found a bullet inside Ryan Trent's skull," said Metro Nashville Police Detective Adam Weeks.
And the news from the medical examiner comes hours after what cops thought was an accident.
"It went from a fatal traffic crash to a homicide," said Det. Weeks.
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Did Ryan get into a beef with someone at work? Could it be a random shooter? Or did he tick off another driver in a road rage fight?
"Ryan Trent's vehicle's driver's window was rolled down, there could have been something yelled out of a window. Unfortunately it just takes something as simple as that," said Weeks. "Where most people would honk a horn or raise a finger or yell a swear word, other people will fire a shot or two at the vehicle."
They post signs offering a reward for his killer. The family is up in arms. They don't believe what cops say went down. A single shot fired in a road rage incident. They go back to the scene of the crime to search for clues themselves.
"We went down there, we had metal detectors looking for evidence," said Glenn Trent.
And there they find something that stops them in their tracks.
"They said one shot killed him but it looked to me like there was more than one shot," said Glenn. "We found some evidence we felt pretty highly of."
Spent cartridges in the same area where cops had searched before. But there's more. Cops reveal there's been a rash of highway shootings: four road rage incidents in the span of a week. bbm
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"The evidence tells me that it's more likely a stranger-on-stranger crime than it is a targeted crime," said Weeks. "I don't believe that anyone had anything against Ryan Trent until a few seconds before they shot Ryan Trent."
Now Ryan's family is asking for your help to catch his killer, wondering if anyone else was on that stretch of Ellington Parkway early that terrible morning when the fatal shot was fired.
"I just feel like there's somebody out there that knows something, and I just beg them to come forward with what information you have," said Sharon.
