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Murfreesboro unsolved murder victim's family hopes killer found soon

The two-year anniversary of the murder of a Murfreesboro man is approaching and the case still hasn't been solved. His family is holding out hope that someone will come forward and help police solve this tragic murder. 

Nathan Morgan Jr. was gunned down while visiting a friend one night.

"It doesn't seem real," said Morgan's mother Lisa Pringle of Murfreesboro.

To lose a loved-one is one thing, but to lose your only son to violence is another.

"It's almost like a nightmare," Pringle said. "A dream, that I'm going to wake up and he'll be here."

The pain and hurt Pringle feels is as real today as it was a year and a half ago when she buried her son.

"It's like it happen yesterday, or it happened a few minutes ago," Pringle said.

Morgan was visiting a friend on Eagle Street in Murfreesboro on May 22, 2010 when someone  shot into the crowd where he was standing.  Three bullets intended for someone else hit Morgan.

"He chose to hang out in an area one night in an area he's not normally accustomed to hanging, and then something this tragic to happen to him, to be murdered," said Morgan's step-father, Pastor Kelvin Walker.

Morgan's family gathered at his graveside at Greenwood Cemetery in Nashville to remember a son, father and brother who they said was at the wrong place at the wrong time.

"He did not deserve what happened to him. He did not. I don't feel it was fair for us for him to be taken away from us, the way he was," the victim's sister Kei'Oshia Morgan said.

Police said even though the murder remains unsolved, the investigation is still active.

"This is an on-going pain, a never ending tear I have to face every day," his mother said.

Morgan's family said they know someone knows who shot Nathan that night; they're just hoping they come forward with information that can help solve his murder.

"Somebody out there knows what happened, someone out there knows who exactly did this," Walker said.

Morgan, dead at 24 years old, a life cut short because of senseless violence.

Murfreesboro Police spokesman Kyle Evans said Morgan's murder case remains a priority for the Criminal Investigation Division. 

CrimeStoppers is offering up to a $1,000 reward for information in the case. The family will also soon be raising money to add to the CrimeStoppers reward.

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