Metro Nashville Police officer, suspect shot in exchange of gunfire at Madison apartments

On Monday, July 15, 2024, Metro Nashville Police were looking for 31-year-old Miqueal Williams, at Skyline Ridge Apartments, who was wanted on an outstanding warrant for first-degree murder. Detective Carlos Diaz and his colleagues on the TITANS (The Investigative Team Addressing Neighborhood Shootings) Unit had developed information that Williams was at the Madison apartment complex and saw him get into the passenger seat of a vehicle.

They approached and demanded that Williams put his hands up. Instead, Williams opened the door and emerged from the vehicle with a semi-automatic pistol and exchanged gunfire with Detective Diaz, who was hit in the leg and moved to a safer area of the parking lot. During the gunfire, Detective Joseph Gonzales approached the open driver’s side door of the vehicle and fired at Williams through the open passenger side door.

Williams was wounded in the hip during the exchange of gunfire with police. Detective Diaz is recovering from a gunshot wound to his leg. Both Detective Diaz and Williams have non-life threatening wounds and are being treated at Skyline Medical Center. Williams is under indictment for the March 4 fatal shooting of Samuel Edwards Jr., 32, at an apartment complex on Buena Vista Pike. A Criminal Court judge set a $1 million bond on the murder indictment.