Two Nashville teenagers charged with homicide in killing of 55-year-old woman

Natalie Allison | The Tennessean

Two Nashville teenagers have been charged in the fatal shooting of a 55-year-old woman lying in her bed in Antioch.

Deaundre Ridley, 17, and Javonterious Starnes, 16, were each charged with criminal homicide in the killing of 55-year-old Beverly Hicks.

Starnes was arrested Wednesday night, while Ridley was taken into custody by Metro Nashville police on Thursday from a Maury County juvenile detention facility and brought to Nashville.

According to police, the teenagers are accused of shooting into Hicks' Calais Circle home June 11. She died July 10 from injuries she sustained in the shooting.

A silver Nissan Maxima opened fire on the house, police say, sending bullets through a window and striking Hicks as she was in bed.

She was taken to Vanderbilt University Medical Center for treatment.

South Precinct detectives believe that the gunfire was part of a dispute Starnes and Ridley were having with Hick's 16-year-old nephew, with whom she lived.

Police say three days before the fatal shooting, they believe Hicks' nephew was "robbed and shot" by Starnes and Ridley, and that the June 11 shooting into the home was "in furtherance of the dispute between the teenagers."