Metro police on Wednesday arrested a 14-year-old boy in the killing of another 14-year-old boy just north of the city's Nashboro Village neighborhood.

According to police spokesman Don Aaron, Geovany Hernandez of Nashville was fatally shot Tuesday evening in the 130 block of Nashboro Greens off Nashboro Boulevard.

Hernandez, who lived on nearby Long Hunter Lane, was a student at Antioch High School, Metro Nashville Public Schools spokeswoman Dawn Rutledge confirmed.

A motive in the shooting was not immediately known, but detectives on Wednesday said the shooting may have stemmed from an ongoing feud between both boys who live in the neighborhood.

"Right now I don't know exactly why this happened," the boy's grief-stricken mother, Lila Ramirez, said Wednesday. "He was very outgoing and happy and had a lot of friends."

Ramirez, 40, said her son loved singing, video games and playing soccer.

Officers responded to a shooting at 6:37 p.m. Tuesday, police said, and found Hernandez shot in the street. Hernandez, who detectives say was shot once in the torso, was taken to Vanderbilt University Medical Center, where he died.

Police said the 14-year-old shooting suspect was taken into custody at his home on Long Hunter Court early Wednesday morning and was being charged with criminal homicide at Juvenile Detention.

The Tennessean does not identify juveniles charged with crimes, but according to information from police and Metro Schools, the shooting suspect is an eighth-grade student enrolled at Margaret Allen Middle School.

Aside from the squeak of a school bus stopping to pick up middle school students and chirping birds in nearby trees, the shooting scene was relatively quiet Wednesday morning.

A handful of residents waking up could be seen peeking out their front doors as a group of police detectives scanned the scene looking for a gun.

During the search, they found a single .22-caliber gold shell casing in a driveway.

Several children waiting to board a school bus earlier said they were outside playing when the shots rang out Tuesday night.

“We all started running,” one girl recalled.

Michael Collins, 26, lives on the street where the shooting took place and said he was inside his home cooking when the shooting happened.

"I came out and saw police and an ambulance," said Collins, who has lived in the neighborhood for three years. "I truly do hate that that was a child."

Hernandez's death marked the 68th criminal homicide in the city in 2018. At this same time last year 84 people had been killed.

The boy is one of seven teenagers to be killed in Nashville this year. He is also the youngest teenage victim.

The last teen to die this year was 17-year-old Miles Hunter of Old Hickory, who died Sept. 11. Police said he fell from the running board of a pickup truck containing several young men as it traveled out of the Hermitage Walmart parking lot onto Andrew Jackson Parkway.

In late September, Hermitage Precinct detectives deemed his death a homicide. As of Wednesday, detectives were actively continuing their work on that case.

Hernandez and the five other teenagers killed this year all died as a result of a gunshot wound.

In addition to his mother, the boy leaves behind his father, Melvin Hernandez, two sisters, ages 12 and 19, and two brothers, ages 20 and 21.

Funeral arrangements for the boy are pending, his mother said.

This is a developing story. Check back for updates.

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