New details have emerged in the death of a 13-year-old Nashville teen who was hit by a car and left for dead at a nearby creek.
Aaliyah Ingram was killed last November but police were unable to obtain any leads in the case. The incident took place on Aster Drive off Paragon Mills in south Nashville.
Since then, Ingram’s mother, Natalie Chastain, is speaking up in hopes that it will shed new light on what led to her daughter’s untimely death.
According to Chastain, the victim was an avid sports lover, who enjoyed cooking and making TikTok videos. Most importantly, she loved her family.
“She was stuck under me all the time,” she told News Channel 5. That’s been the hardest thing for me to go from having her constantly everywhere I go to not having her at all.”
She further added that it still hasn’t hit her that her only child is no longer alive.
“I want justice, but at the end of the day, it’s not going to bring her back. It’s not going to change how I feel,” she said. “My baby cannot be replaced. Her injuries are consistent with her being run over. She had a broken nose, both of her collar bones were broken. Her ribs were broken, and her hip was broken in three different places.”
Reports say following the accident, the victim managed to crawl to a nearby home for assistance, but she was later pronounced dead.
Detectives are now on the prowl to find a man believed to be connected to the case.
Chastain said that shortly before Ingram’s death, she met a man on social media and snuck out of the home to meet him the night she died.
“She made one mistake. One mistake to leave my house, and it cost her her whole life and mine and I miss her.”
She continued: “If nobody is held liable, that means that it makes me believe that people believe my child’s life was worth nothing.”
Police are now looking for the man – whose name has not been identified – at the time of this writing.
Anyone with tips leading to his finding is urged to call Nashville Crime Stoppers at 615-742-7463.
