LA VERGNE, Tenn. (WKRN) — Tina Jacob told News 2 her life will never be the same after her grandson, 22-year-old Noah Taylor, was found shot along Interstate 24 early Saturday morning.

“He had went to welding school. He was working; he had gotten right with the Lord, and he'd been baptized. Now his life was just cut so short,” Jacob said.

Taylor was found around 7:30 a.m. Saturday. Tragically, some of his family even sat in that traffic, on their way to see his niece, who had just been born at Vanderbilt.

Tina started a GoFundMe page to help build a reward for information.  

“I put $2,000 in that this morning. Crime Stoppers are putting $1,000 in there. That's $3,000, and we're going to grow it, and we're going to keep growing it,” Jacob said.

Noah's parents also put out this plea Monday for dash cam footage on the Rutherford County Sheriff’s Facebook page.

“Dash cam on I-24 between 7 and 8 a.m. Saturday morning, regardless of how little you think it may mean, any footage at all, to please reach out to the detective and give them that footage,” Noah’s mother, Katrina Leonard, said.

Despite having several TDOT Smartway cameras set up along the stretch of roadway, those are only for live traffic monitoring and are not recorded by TDOT.

After several incidents along I-24, Noah's family is now calling for permanent cameras to be installed that record.

Noah was found shot near the same exit where back in May, another driver was shot and killed. Also, on I-24, in August 2022, officials reported someone in an SUV shot into a semi near mile marker 70 in Murfreesboro. In 2021, two men were arrested after a 19-year-old woman was shot near I-840.

“If they know that that's a problem area, why is it not being monitored 24/7. Why do people still have to die there? The last one being like May 19th of this year,” Jacob said.

If you do have any dashboard footage or information in this case, you're asked to call the Rutherford County Sheriff's Office directly, or you can submit tips anonymously to Rutherford County Crime Stoppers. 

Jacob said if there is any money left over from the GoFundMe page following the reward, that money will go toward a victims' fund through Crime Stoppers.

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