In the early morning of Saturday, October 26, 2024, a car was found crashed into a fence in the 9300 block of Macon Road in Cordova, Tennessee. First responders who arrived just after 7 a.m. discovered a man inside the vehicle with a gunshot wound. Paramedics pronounced 50-year-old Jonathan Scott Hurdle, a resident of Oakland, Tennessee, deceased at the scene.

The crash site was treated as a homicide scene and the stretch of Macon Road between Berryhill Road and Big Orange was temporarily closed while detectives processed evidence. Investigators have said the circumstances leading up to the shooting are unclear and they are trying to determine why Hurdle was in that area. No arrests or suspects have been publicly identified and the motive remains unknown.

Anyone with information that could help investigators is asked to contact CrimeStoppers.