Jackson police and Sheriff’s Department investigators are investigating a series of incidents starting at 550 Old Hickory Blvd. with a shooting that killed a woman and injured a man who was a passenger in her car, followed by a carjacking of a family of three near Wallace Road and North Parkway, and culminating with the shooting of a suspect in the homicide and carjacking by a sheriff's deputy on West Park Place.
The incidents started about 2:15 this afternoon when police responded to the homicide scene near the entrance of The Villages at Old Hickory apartments at 550 Old Hickory, according to a news release from police.
The suspect in these incidents has been identified as Tray Chaney, 18, of Jackson.
Based on investigation so far, Chaney intentionally struck a car that belonged to and was driven by Daphne Rose Kenner, 18, of Jackson, and ran her off the road near The Villages apartments. Kenneth Price, 21, of Jackson, was a passenger in Kenner's car.
After the vehicles came to a stop, Chaney approached Kenner’s car on foot and shot Kenner and Price, police said. Kenner died at the scene. Price has been airlifted to another hospital in serious but stable condition to treat a gunshot wound to the head.
Chaney got back into his car and fled on Old Hickory to Wallace then south, police said. Chaney lost control and hit another vehicle near Wallace and Shady Lane.
Chaney stopped a silver van on Wallace and forced the man and woman out of the van at gunpoint, allowing the woman to grab her infant before turning around and driving south on Wallace in the stolen van, police said. Metro Narcotics Investigator, Deputy Nathaniel Shoate was approaching on Wallace as the carjacking victims, still in the street, pointed out the van fleeing on Parkway.
Shoate pursued and was shortly joined by Jackson police officers.
The pursuit ended on West Park Place, off Airways Boulevard near downtown. Chaney ran inside his home at 163 West Park Place with the deputy and officers in pursuit.
Once inside, Chaney fired a shot and Deputy Shoate fired one shot. Chaney "was subdued, taken into custody and transported by ambulance to the emergency room," police said.
Investigation is still ongoing and has not yet determined whether the deputy’s shot hit Chaney or if Chaney shot himself, police said.
Chaney suffered a grazing gunshot wound to the scalp. He was treated at the ER and
transported by sheriff’s deputies to Western state mental health institute in Bolivar for further evaluation. Formal charges are pending after his release from Western.
Chaney made statements to investigators that Kenner was his girlfriend.
The family who were carjacked were not injured.
"Thankfully no one else was injured during these incidents," police said in the news release. "Chaney is the only suspect in the incidents."
Shoate has been placed on paid administrative leave per the Madison County Sheriff’s Office’s standard procedure when a deputy has been involved in a shooting.
Angel Owens, who said she is Chaney's sister, said she was home when Chaney was shot. She said police broke down their door and shot her brother. She said she opened the door for her brother when he got home and he ran in just before police got there.
Ray Graves, a neighbor on West Park Place, said he saw Chaney race down the road in a silver van, being followed by police. Chaney jumped out of the van, ran up on the porch of his house, and turned and fired a shot at a deputy, Graves said. A deputy followed Chaney into the house and another shot was fired, Graves said.
On West Park Place, just after the shooting occurred about 2:30 p.m. police cars lined both sides of the road. The silver van stood with some of its doors open.
Lauren Foreman contributed to this story.
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