NASHVILLE, TN (WSMV) -
A 62-year-old west Nashville man was critically injured in a shooting Monday morning.
The incident occurred at 3:45 a.m. at a home on Louisiana Avenue near the corner of 63rd Avenue North.
The injured man was identified as Kenneth Light.
Light's two adult grandsons told detectives that their mother woke them after hearing a kicking noise at the front door. They said they subsequently saw Light standing on the driver's side of a small dark car and heard one or two shots. Light fell in the street. The grandsons said they both fired shots at the car as it drove away.
Light is in critical but stable condition at Vanderbilt University Medical Center.
The motive for the shooting has not been determined. Officers said they detected a strong marijuana odor inside the home and found drug paraphernalia in plain view.
Earlier shooting
A separate shooting occurred earlier at a nearby home on Illinois Avenue. That shooting left a 19-year-old woman with non-life-threatening injuries to her leg at about 1:30 a.m.
Police are investigating to see if the shootings are related.
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