NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WSMV) - Metro Nashville Police Homicide Unit detectives are investigating a self-defense claim in a deadly shooting at a Madison apartment complex early Saturday morning.

MNPD reports that 22-year-old Alexia Stephens was fatally shot inside her estranged wife’s Gibson Creek apartment.

Officers responded to the complex on East Webster Street at 7:12 a.m. after the admitted shooter called 911. The shooter was identified as 21-year-old Jack Wade, who had been visiting the apartment at the time of the shooting, MNPD said.

Those at the scene told detectives that Stephens and her estranged wife shared a child and that Stephens had moved out of the apartment a few days before the shooting.

MNPD reports that the estranged wife told detectives that Stephens had come to her doo

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