Top 5 Things You Should Know Today (12-19-19)

Suspect charged with criminal homicide in Edgehill shooting

Police have identified and charged 26 year old Xavier Holloway Jr with criminal homicide in a shooting that happened in Edgehill last week. Terry C. Smith, 21, was shot and killed Thursday on Edgehill Avenue. Holloway Jr. is still at large and police are searching for him. Anyone who knows where he is was asked to call 615-742-7463.


Trump Is 3rd U.S. President to Be Impeached: House Votes That He Abused His Power, Obstructed Congress

  • Donald Trump was impeached by the U.S. House of Representatives on yesterday.
  • Trump is now only the third U.S. President in history to be impeached by the House, following Andrew Johnson and Bill Clinton
  • The House voted to approve two articles of impeachment: Abuse of Power and obstruction of justice
  • The articles now head to the GOP-controlled Senate, where most expect an acquittal.
  • Donald Trump had an opinion on the outcome.
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  • Pelosi does not know when she will send the articles to the Senate.

Sumner County woman indicted on 10 charges of statutory rape after alleged relationship with 15-year-old

A Sumner County woman faces statutory rape charges after police say she engaged in a sexual relationship with a 15-year-old boy. April Nicole Roach, 46, was indicted by a Sumner County Grand Jury with 10 counts of statutory rape by an authority figure. Millersville police began investigating in September after receiving a report about the alleged rape. Roach was arrested Wednesday and booked into Sumner County Jail.


Police: Woman fatally shot East Nashville man because ‘the devil was in the residence’

28-year-old Kristina Arnold called 911 and  told detectives she shot her boyfriend, 47 year old Jamar Pillow in the head Tuesday night at his East Nashville home because “something” in the residence “told her to do it,” according to a  police report. Arnold admitted she shot  Pillow while he was in bed at a home on Fairwin Avenue near Inga Street. He was transported to Vanderbilt University Medical Center, where he was eventually pronounced dead. Arnold was booked into the Metro jail Wednesday morning on a charge of attempted criminal homicide.


Woman arrested with 4 kilograms of deadly fentanyl at Nashville bus station, officials say

A woman was arrested and faces more charges after authorities say she was caught with four kilograms of fentanyl in her luggage at the Greyhound bus station in Nashville. Jennifer Montejo, 31, is charged with possession with intent to distribute 100 grams or more of heroin and 400 grams or more of fentanyl. According to a criminal complaint, Montejo was the subject of a drug trafficking investigation in Nashville and at a state prison. The drug trafficking operation is believed to be coordinated by a state prisoner. She was arrested on Dec. 11 at the Greyhound bus station after returning from California. Officials say about 4 kilograms of fentanyl and another kilogram of what’s suspected to be heroin. At the time of her arrest, Montejo was out on bond for drug charges out of Dickson County after Tennessee Highway Patrol officers caught her on I-40 traveling back from California and said they found 3/4 of a kilogram of pills containing fentanyl, one kilogram of heroin and three firearms. Montejo faces 10 years in prison if convicted. That investigation is being conducted by the U.S. Postal Inspection Service, the Drug Enforcement Administration, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives, the Internal Revenue Service – Criminal Investigation Division, the Tennessee Department of Corrections – Office of the Inspector General, the Metropolitan Nashville Police Department, and other partner agencies.

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DIDDY WANTS OUT OF JAIL BEFORE SENTENCING

DIDDY WANTS OUT OF JAIL BEFORE SENTENCING

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JELLY ROLL IS GOING TO THE WWE

JELLY ROLL IS GOING TO THE WWE

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CONGRATULATIONS TO COCO JONES ON HER ENGAGEMENT

CONGRATULATIONS TO COCO JONES ON HER ENGAGEMENT

Singer Coco Jones and NBA star Donovan Mitchell are engaged. Jones posted an Instagram photo of herself and Mitchell, where she showed off her ring. The couple had been dating for about a year, but both of them kept things quiet. Jones revealed that she and Mitchell were dating on Club Shay Shay in March.