WSMV Channel 4 Woman killed while lying in her bed

A 43-year-old woman was shot in the head and killed after someone fired five bullets into the north Nashville home where she lived with her elderly parents and her brother.

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Gunshots are not unusual in the neighborhood, but now relatives and neighbors are asking why this family would have been targeted.

"I been knowing her all my life," says Jackie Davis, who lives around the corner from the victim's house at 1809 Haynes St.

Davis said the woman, Tonya Ross, was the mother of four children. She was shot in the head as she was lying in her bed about 6:15 p.m. Tuesday.

"They're good people, they're church-going people. They've even got a gospel group. I just don't understand why somebody would do something like that to anybody around here," Davis says.

Metro Police aren't sure if this was a drive-by shooting but said these were no random bullets. There were approximately five shots fired.

"Bullets were fired into the residence. I doubt that it was accidental," said Commander Anthony Carter of North Precinct.

Daryl Thomas said his grandmother heard the first shots and tried to get her bedridden husband out of the line of fire.

"When they heard the shots, my grandmomma hollered out, 'Tonya, help me get Marvin on the floor,' which is my grandfather, 'he had a stroke, he can't get around,'" Thomas said.

Thomas said his grandmother then found that Ross had been shot in the head.

Thomas said relatives called from Vanderbilt a short while later to say she didn't make it.

He said nothing like this has ever happened at his grandparent's house, which he called a blessing to the neighborhood.

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