The slain Nashville jogger heard screams on the dashcam shortly before the murder

Witnesses heard a Nashville woman screaming for help before she was found dead – police were able to track down her suspected killer using dashcam footage from a helpful civilian and a detective who worked a case involving his twin.

Last week, Metro Nashville Police announced the arrest of 29-year-old Paul Park in connection with the death of 34-year-old Alyssa Lokits.

The woman was exercising on the Mill Creek Greenway Trail in Nashville on Monday, October 14th. Security cameras showed Park allegedly emerging from between two parked vehicles and “following her at a brisk pace,” the department wrote in a news release.

After the two left the camera's view, witnesses heard a woman screaming, “Help! He's trying to rape me!” Then, according to police, the witnesses heard gunshots.

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A short time later, Park was seen with scratches on his arms and blood on his clothing as he returned to his gray BMW sedan.

Investigators were only able to solve the case when a local resident provided them with dashcam footage that showed part of Park's license plate and a clearer image of his face.

A homicide detective who reviewed the footage recognized Park as an identical twin brother from a suicide case she worked on in December 2021, CBS News reported.

“I pray there is no incident where we don't have a dashcam or no one helps us, like in this case,” MNPD Chief John Drake said at a news conference. “I’m so grateful that our people have embraced this – we need technology.”

Even without the footage of helpful civilians, new technology developed by artificial intelligence software can help police investigate cases like the Nashville murder. Veritone is one of the companies leading this movement.

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The license plate of Paul Park's gray BMW sedan was not captured on surveillance footage – but thanks to a partial license plate captured by a hiker's dashcam, police were able to arrest the accused killer. (Metro Nashville Police Department)

Veritone Track, one of several features in a suite of law enforcement services, uses artificial intelligence to track a photo or video of a vehicle — like the video captured in the park's surveillance footage — using traffic light cameras, body-worn cameras and others City cameras compare surveillance footage to police to find a match.

“Both federal and local law enforcement have a major data problem,” Veritone CEO Ryan Steelberg told Fox News Digital. “They are now capturing body cameras [footage] and dashcams. They have cameras all over the city. Citizens upload videos.”

“They just don’t have the budget or the staff to deal with all this audio and video content,” Steelberg continued. “Machines are needed to help law enforcement sift through this volume of data.”

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In cities where high-resolution cameras are available to police, Steelberg said the technology can recognize the make and model of a car and even detect small imperfections like dents that make it stand out.

“Typically when we do an inspection, we're very, very good at finding, for example, this white 1986 Honda Accord that has a dent on the left side,” Steelberg said.

Nashville police announced that a suspect was arrested less than 24 hours after the murder of Alyssa Lokits. (Metropolitan Nashville Police/Vanderbilt University)

According to Amnesty International, the New York Police Department has access to more than 20,000 video feeds in the city's streets, subways and parks. Philadelphia police have access to 7,000 camera images, The Inquirer reported.

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Drake noted at the press conference for Park's arrest that more surveillance cameras and license plate readers could help law enforcement in his city.

“One of our members here [was] Talking to the Shelbyville police chief, they just got license plate readers and … 12 cameras,” he said. “Within two hours they got two stolen cars… I hope this city realizes that this is a very valuable vehicle.” “A tool that every county that borders Davidson County has… it's something we urgently need need.”

Retired NYPD inspector and attorney Paul Mauro said that while the software could be useful in some scenarios, such as killing Lokits, users are “committed to quality.” [of municipal cameras]” and could potentially face legal problems.

“I don’t know if most city cameras are up to it,” Mauro told Fox News Digital. “Most municipalities don’t have a lot of money, they can’t hire police officers these days – all of that assumes they have penetrative and accurate cameras.”

Mauro cited United States v. Antoine Jones, a 2012 Supreme Court decision that found Americans have constitutional protections from GPS surveillance by law enforcement and that GPS tracking is considered a “search,” which requires a warrant under the Fourth Amendment.

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“Under current law, you can currently put that license plate into an LPR license plate reader, and if a license plate reader elsewhere picks it up… that's perfectly legal. What? [Veritone] “It seems promising that they can do this on cars without requiring a license plate,” Mauro explained.

“But if you go even further, let's say, for example, 'Look, we have this car, we don't know who's driving it, but we're feeding it into the AI ​​so we can follow it and see who it's visiting '.” That's a completely different story.

“[If needed]“You can get a search warrant — there’s no reason why you can’t get a search warrant,” Mauro said.