NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WKRN) — Violent crime in Nashville is trending down.

Numbers from the Metro Nashville Police Department show homicides are down nearly 30% compared to last year. However, they still happen in the community.

Data from the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation details how old the victims were, where the homicides took place, and even what weapon was used in the crime.

"You never get over it, never," the Co-Founder for Tennessee Voices for Victims, Verna Wyatt, said.

It was February 1991 on the Cumberland River, a time of murder and misery. Verna Wyatt described her sister-in-law, Martha Wyatt's, last moments alive.

"He wrapped her up in a waterbed liner and tied her ankles and her knees and all that together, and threw her in the river, so she knew she wasn't going to surv

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