Murfreesboro Police: 22-year-old killing in shooting near MTSU campus

Sep 11, 2019 at 05:00 pm by Voice Wire


Murfreesboro Police Criminal Investigations Division detectives are investigating a suspicious shooting that left a man dead.

Patrol units responded to the Campus Villa Apartments, 902 Greenland Ave., around 1:26 p.m. Tuesday Sept. 10, about a man suffering from a gunshot wound.

The victim, Oscar Lee Eiland, Jr., 22, was transported to the St. Thomas Rutherford Hospital where he was pronounced deceased.

Detectives are interviewing possible witnesses as to how the shooting occurred. The case remains under investigation by CID.

Photo Credit Murfreesboro Police Department

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