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4 teens arrested in fatal shooting of Nashville high school student after football game

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Morrison, E. (2026, October 4). 4 teens arrested in fatal shooting of Nashville high school student after football game. New York Post. https://nypost.com/2026/10/03/us-news/4-teens-arrested-in-fatal-shooting-of-nashville-high-school-student-after-football-game/

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Four teenagers, aged 16 to 18, were arrested six weeks after fatally shooting Cameron Frierson, a 16-year-old high school student in Nashville. The incident occurred on August 21 following a football game; Cameron was struck by multiple bullets fired from a white sedan and died later that night at the hospital. Police charged the suspects with criminal homicide and conspiracy but have not determined the motive for the shooting. Brittany Frierson, Cameron’s mother, expressed her grief and determination to see justice served while acknowledging the difficult backgrounds of the accused teens.

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Cameron Frierson, a 16-year-old student at Hunters Lane High School, was fatally shot on August 21 after attending a football game at Pearl-Cohn High School in Nashville. Six weeks later, on Friday, the Metropolitan Nashville Police Department arrested four teenagers: Jon’quavous Johns-Collins (18), Marcelle Stem Jr. (17), Lil Tay Webster (17), and Zachkeius Brown (16), charging them with criminal homicide and engaging in criminal conspiracy. The shooting occurred around 10:30 p.m., with witnesses reporting that multiple shots were fired from a white vehicle. Cameron was struck by several bullets while his younger brother Chris remained unharmed. After being rushed to Vanderbilt University Hospital, Cameron was pronounced dead. At the arraignment hearing, Brittany Frierson, Cameron’s mother, warned the suspects she would attend every court hearing. The motive for the shooting remains under investigation by local police.

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The arrests came exactly six weeks after Cameron Frierson, 16, was fatally shot in front of his younger brother Chris after the two boys attended a football game at Pearl-Cohn High School in Nashville on August 21, local police said. asserted

police → come → August

Jon’quavous Johns-Collins, 18, Marcelle Stem Jr., 17, Lil Tay Webster, 17, and Zachkeius Brown, 16, were each slapped with charges of criminal homicide and engaging in criminal conspiracy, the Metropolitan Nashville Police Department announced Friday. asserted

Department → slap → conspiracy

The slain teen’s mom, Brittany Frierson, came face-to-face with one of her son’s accused killers in court Friday — and warned the four suspects they “will see my face at every court hearing.” asserted

they → slay → hearing

The four teens were inside of a vehicle from which “multiple shots were fired” at 10:30 p.m. the night of the killing, cops said. asserted

cops → fire → killing

Cameron Frierson, a Hunters Lane High School junior, was struck by the spray of bullets and found with several gunshot wounds by responding officers. asserted

Frierson → strike → officers

He was rushed to Vanderbilt University hospital where he was later pronounced dead. asserted

he → rush → hospital

Cops were still investigating the motive behind the shooting. asserted

Cops → investigate → shooting

Witnesses at the time said the shots came from a white sedan with tinted windows, WKRN-TV reported. asserted

TV → say → windows

All of the suspects were underage at the time of the shooting, and were each charged in juvenile court, the police department said in a media release. asserted

department → charge → release

The Friday court hearing was both painful and significant for the victim’s devastated mother but she said she was “thankful that my son is going to get the justice that he deserves because he didn’t deserve this.” asserted

he → say → this

“He was mine, and you didn’t have a right to take him from me,” Brittany Frierson said. asserted

Frierson → have → me

The heartbroken mom said while she feels sympathy for the circumstances some of the arrested teens might have dealt with growing up, it doesn’t excuse what they allegedly did to her son. uncertain

they → say → son

“I feel a lot of empathy for them because I know what type of background they came from, and I know they probably didn’t have the easiest route, but that doesn’t give them the right to hurt somebody else,” she told the outlet. asserted

she → feel → outlet

“My son did nothing to them,” she said, claiming that “if it wasn’t Cameron, it would have been somebody that night because they already had it in their heads. asserted

they → do → heads

That’s what they wanted to do.” asserted

they → ’ → what

Frierson pleaded that “we have to do better with our kids” because “those kids were obviously hurting bad enough where they felt the need to go out and hurt someone else.” asserted

they → plead → someone

4 teens arrested in fatal shooting of Nashville high school student after football game

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