Lower than 24 hours after a lady was shot to demise whereas exercising on a preferred path in Nashville, detectives have made an arrest in connection to her homicide.
The Metropolitan Nashville Police Division (MNPD) introduced that Paul Park was taken into custody for the homicide of Alyssa Lokits.
“Lower than 24 hours after the deadly capturing of Alyssa Lokits, 34, on the Mill Creek Greenway, unimaginable investigative work from Murder & Specialised Investigations detectives led to the arrest simply now of Paul Park, 29, of Brentwood,” police mentioned in a press release on X.
Lokits was discovered with a gunshot wound round 5:30 p.m. Monday on the Mill Creek Greenway off Previous Hickory Boulevard in Nashville, police mentioned in a earlier assertion.
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Police mentioned Lokits was taken to Vanderbilt College Medical Heart the place she died.
Investigators decided that Lokits was out for a stroll within the space of the greenway path when Park stepped out from between two parked vehicles and started following her at a “brisk tempo.”Â
Some witnesses claimed to have heard a lady screaming, “Assist! He’s attempting to rape me,” adopted by gunfire.
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Witnesses additionally instructed police that they noticed a person, probably Asian, on prime of Lokits earlier than pictures had been fired.Â
Police mentioned Lotkits and Park then walked out of view of the park’s surveillance digicam. Nonetheless, video captured Park returning to his grey automobile with “scratches on his arms and blood on his clothes.”
Park then fled the parking space in a dark-colored 4-door sedan in the direction of Previous Hickory Boulevard.
Later within the night, a significant break within the case occurred when a witness who was native to the world, offered police with extra video footage recorded on his automobile’s dashcam that was parked on the greenway trailhead.Â
Police mentioned the dashcam recorded clear photographs of Park in addition to his automobile, whereas one other witness was capable of present a portion of Park’s license plate quantity.
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Police mentioned one other main break within the case occurred when MNPD Murder Detective Shannon Forsyth reviewed the photograph of the suspect taken from the witness’s dashcam and acknowledged the suspect as being the an identical twin brother of a suicide case that she had labored on in December 2021.
Detectives then arrange surveillance at Park’s Brentwood residence, adopted him after he left, and stopped him in Davidson County after the murder arrest warrant was issued.
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Park is at police headquarters being interviewed and will probably be booked on the murder warrant later Tuesday night, police mentioned.Â
In line with Vanderbilt College, Lokits graduated from the varsity in 2017. She labored within the Hamm Lab as a graduate pupil in neuroscience.Â
