Woman shot multiple times by boyfriend in apparent murder-suicide at Nashville apartment

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WSMV) – Update: The Metro Nashville Police Department has released new information in the investigation into an apparent murder-suicide at an apartment on Monday.

MNPD reports that homicide detectives have identified the victim and suspect involved in the incident at an apartment on Glengarry Drive. The victim has been identified as 35-year-old Merlin Nataren and the suspect as 27-year-old Jovanni Antonio Machado Portillo.

Police said that Nataren’s family had not been able to contact her since late Sunday night. So, as they arrived at Portillo’s apartment, they found her shot multiple times in the bedroom, dead…

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