NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WKRN) — Family and friends honored Ashley Dominguez’s life at a candlelight vigil Sunday, two weeks after the 18-year-old was fatally shot while riding in the backseat of a car in South Nashville.
“Justice needs to be served for my sister,” Dominguez’s oldest sister, Maira Fargoso, told reporters at the vigil on Sunday, Dec. 15.
Dominguez died following a shooting at an “after-hours club” in the 900 block of Murfreesboro Pike on Dec. 1, the Metro Nashville Police Department (MNPD) said. Witnesses told law enforcement there was a heated argument before shots were fired at a vehicle with five people inside.
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The driver reportedly pulled into an office building parking lot in the 1300 block of Murfreesboro Pike after realizing Dominguez and two 19-year-olds had been injured. The three young women were transported to Vanderbilt University Medical Center, where Dominguez died, according to authorities.
“We went from doing college arrangements with her and then funeral arrangements in a heartbeat,” Fargoso said.
Fargoso remembers her sister as outgoing and kind.
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“She was funny. She was a peacemaker. She would walk into a room, literally the life of the party. If it was quiet, you knew she was there because she was just loud and she loved to talk to people,” Fargoso explained.
The Dominguez family and the Tennessee Hispanic Action Network planted 728 white roses outside the Historic Metro Courthouse to call attention to violent crime in Nashville.
“Each rose represents a life lost to gun violence in our city in the last 10 years,” said Melissa Alvarez Zabriskie, a spokesperson from the Tennessee Hispanic Action Network. “It’s an overwhelming number, so when you come in and you see so many roses, the expectation is that you feel an overwhelming feeling that this is bad, this is a problem that we need to address.”
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The Dominguez family also said they want to call attention to the impact gun violence can have on families and communities.
“Sunday, it was my sister. Tomorrow, it could be somebody else, somebody else’s sibling, somebody else’s loved one. It just needs to stop,” said Fargoso. “She was a kid, she had a life ahead of herself, and something so small became big and my sister’s life got taken for it, and I don’t want that for anybody else.”
Homicide detectives have interviewed multiple people in this investigation, but police have not announced any arrests as of this writing. If you know anything about this case, you’re asked to call Crime Stoppers at 615-742-7463.
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