MNPD looking into phone data to try to solve 2017 cold case

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WKRN) — In 2017, a woman was found shot and killed inside a vehicle outside an apartment building in South Nashville.

To date, no one has been arrested in connection with the crime.

On the morning of May 26, 2017, the MNPD received a call about a dead woman inside a white Kia Soul at an apartment complex in at 455 Swiss Avenue.

“She was seated in the driver's seat and appeared to be shot and was pronounced deceased at the scene,” Christopher Stevick, a Cold Case Unit detective with the MNPD, told News 2.

The victim was identified as 31-year-old Vian Ahmed Kasim. For years, no one could be linked to the crime.

“Shooting investigations in general when there's not an immediate motive can be tough,” Stevick said.

Kasim's sister told News 2 that Kasim was an entrepreneur