Brentwood Man Arrested in Shooting Death of Nashville Woman

A Brentwood man has been arrested and charged in connection with Monday night's murder of a Nashville woman on the Mill Creek Greenway off of Old Hickory Boulevard.

29-year-old Paul Sori Park was arrested and charged with homicide less than 24 hours after Metro Nashville Police said he shot and killed 34-year-old Alyssa Lokits around 5:30 p.m. on Monday.

Lokits was walking in the area of the Nashville greenway path when a man, later identified as Park, “stepped out from between two parked vehicles and began following her at a brisk pace,” something that was captured on a civilian vehicle's dash camera that was parked at a greenway trailhead.

Witnesses also reported seeing Park in an overgrown area where Lokits was found with a gunshot wound. She later died after she was transported to Vanderbilt University Medical Center.

Police said that civilian dashcam footage also showed a bloodied and scratched Park returning to his gray BMW sedan before fleeing the scene.

Witnesses reported hearing a woman screaming, “Help, he’s trying to rape me,” before the sounds of gunfire erupted.

Park was identified as a suspect in part due to the camera footage and witnesses, and from an MNPD detective who recognized Park “as being the identical twin brother from a suicide case that she had worked in December 2021.”

Police called Park an "apparent stranger" to Lokits and have not stated a known motive in the attack.

MNPD detectives surveilled Park's Jupiter Forest Drive home, and just after 3 p.m. on Tuesday, detectives followed and arrested Park as he drove on Autumn Crossing Way in Davidson County. As of Tuesday evening, detectives were continuing to interview Park at MNPD headquarters.

Assistant Brentwood Police Chief Jim Colvin told The News that BPD was not directly involved in Park's arrest but were ready to assist if needed. Colvin said that BPD officers have had some previous interactions with Park. 

According to Williamson County court records, in 2017, Park was sentenced to probation as part of judicial diversion following a domestic assault arrest.

In 2018, he was sentenced to 10 days in jail and supervised probation for violating his original probation sentence following his arrest on possession of Schedule I, Schedule IV and Schedule VI drugs. 

The Schedule I charge was eventually dismissed as part of a plea deal, which saw him plead guilty to the other two drug charges.