Aaliyah Ingram: 13-Year-Old Nashville Teen Hit Killed After Meeting Boy On Social Media
Aaliyah Ingram, 13, of Nashville, Tennessee, died after being struck by a vehicle on November 21, 2022. Her family wants answers and justice.
Aaliyah Ingram of Nashville, Tennessee, used to love to make tacos, listen to music and watch sports, according to her family.
According to her obituary, “Her smile lit up a room. It was infectious. When she smiled, her eyes would almost close, that's how big of a smile it always was. She had the most beautiful eyes. They were a light hazel/green.”
"She was stuck under me all the time,” her mother Natalie Chastain, told News Channel 5 in Nashville. “That's been the hardest thing for me to go from having her constantly everywhere I go to not having her at all."
"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. My baby cannot be replaced.”
In November 21, 2022, the 13-year-old girl was hit by car, dragged to a nearby creek and left for dead.
“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," Chastain said.
The mother told TV station WKRN that, “She was drugged or taken down the street and left on the side of the road in a creek, and just left there, and it was 19 degrees.”
Badly injured, Aaliyah spent the last hours of her life fighting for it. She managed to crawl to a residence and ask for help at the doorstep. During a three-hour ordeal, she would later die from her injuries.
Law enforcement officials have confirmed that she was killed, but went months without making an arrest.
The best clue that police had was that they found out that Aaliyah left her house that night to meet a boy she’d met on social media.
"She made one mistake. One mistake to leave my house, and it cost her her whole life and mine and I miss her," her mother told the news outlet. "If nobody is held liable, that means that it makes me believe that people believe my child's life was worth nothing."
In May 2023, Metro Police announced that Cesar Martinez, 15, was charged with vehicular homicide by recklessness for the single-vehicle crash that fatally injured Aaliyah.
Investigators say on that fateful night, Martinez drove a stolen Chrysler 300 that crashed into a house. Responding officers found the car unoccupied. Ingram had been a passenger.
Anyone with anymore information is asked to call Nashville Crime Stoppers at 615-742-7463.
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