Teen’s Remains Discovered in Sumner County, 17-Year-Old Arrested for Murder
By Misty Green
On the night of June 29th, 2024, the Macon County Sheriff’s Department received a report of a runaway juvenile Trinity Bostic.
During the investigation, Sheriff Deputies gathered information from family and friends regarding her possible whereabouts. Trinity’s cell phone number was obtained, and immediately they began to trace her location, which led to areas outside of Macon County. Agencies in Sumner County were notified as to the area where her location was traced, but attempts to locate her were unsuccessful.
Trinity was entered into the National Crime Information Center as a missing person and a BOLO was sent to agencies throughout middle Tennessee.
On July 3, 2024, the Hendersonville Police Department began a death investigation after being notified of human remains discovered in a small wood line near S.R. 386 at New Shackle Island Rd and Vietnam Veterans Boulevard, by a TDOT subcontract worker picking up trash along the roadway. The white female, approximately 4’9, 105 lbs., with brown hair was positively identified as 17-year-old Trinity Bostic.
Hendersonville Police Department MEDIA RELEASE:
UPDATE: 7/6/2024
The Hendersonville Police Department has arrested a 17-year-old male from Westmoreland TN for the murder of Trinity Bostic. The suspect is currently being held in Sumner County Detention and is charged with first-degree murder. The investigation of this incident continues.
What remains for this community now is remembering the life of a Macon County teen who ended too soon.
Trinity Lei Bostic was preparing for “Senior” life at Macon County High School this coming fall, also keeping herself busy bringing smiles to shoppers at the Lafayette Wal-Mart.
I remember in my high school days, a speaker making a statement that painfully keeps repeating itself to be true every year… The man said, everybody look around at the folks sitting in this auditorium with you right now, because I can tell you now, that not everybody you see sitting here right now will make it to graduate with you.
The news of Trinity’s death traveled back to Macon Countians much faster than the information of her having been declared a missing person had gone out, and the power of that message was felt in every call or message shared the following days telling the heartbreaking news of what had happened.
Gena Nash’s daughter is a classmate of Trinity Bostic and shared that her family was eating when hearing the news.
“I watched the color drain out of my Trinity’s face when she received a message about her passing… They were in the same grade, the same age, and shared the same first name… Prayers to her and her classmates,” Ms. Nash said.
Looking up Trinity’s Facebook page, I noticed that my niece, NaLani Spangler, is one of her Facebook friends. I went downstairs and entered her room and I saw her crying, having just been told the bad news. She shared their story, “When I moved here from Kentucky, I did not know anybody at school and I did not have any friends and I was feeling really alone, and she was the first person to come up and talk to me… She taught me that you can choose to make light out of every dark situation… We loved to make TikTok videos and she would always sit with me at lunch and break so that I would never sit alone… Trin, you deserved so much better than what you got. Everyone was looking forward to seeing your bright future and all of your dreams come to life, and that is what hurts most of all, that those dreams end here, but her memory will never die.”
Trinity’s senior class started a GoFundMe for her family, to help with funeral costs. https://gofund.me/ddd3aecc
Miss Trinity Lei Bostic, age 17 of Lafayette, Tennessee passed away Wednesday, July 3rd, 2024. Trinity was born on February 14th, 2007 in Gallatin, Tennessee to Timothy Bostic and Shelby May.
She is preceded in death by her sister, Michelle Wilson; paternal grandparents, John and Nelda Bostic; maternal grandparents, Dean and Peggy West.
She is survived by her father, Timothy Bostic; mother, Shelby May; sisters, Tasia McClain (Cory), Tasha Calcote (John), and Tarren May. brothers, TJ Bostic (Emily), Dylan Bostic (Shelby), Tyler Spivey, Tanner May and Malachi Bostic; aunts, Roxanne Bostic (Daniel), Robbie Key (Lanny) and Sheila Gibbs (Darrell); Uncle, Randy West; nieces and nephews, Lillian McClain, Raylin McClain, Natalie Friedman, Lucas Friedman, Granger Bostic, Abigail Calcote, Andria McClain, Audrie McClain, Presley Bostic, Adaline Calcote, Bentley Carter and Calleigh Calcote.
Funeral services for Trinity will be held on Tuesday, July 9th at 1:00 PM in the chapel of Sellars Family Heritage at Portland with Bro. David Mitchell officiating. Family and friends will serve as pallbearers. Visitation with the family will be Tuesday, July 9th from 11 a.m.-1 p.m. at Sellars Family Heritage in Portland.
If anyone has any possible information about this case, please contact the Hendersonville Police Department at 615-822-1111 or the Macon County Sheriff’s Office at 615-666-3325.
