On Wednesday afternoon, November 17, 2021, 36-year-old Adolph Robert Thornton Jr., known professionally as Young Dolph, was fatally shot inside Makeda’s Homemade Butter Cookies in Memphis while buying cookies for his mother. Two men exited a stolen white Mercedes-Benz and opened fire through the shop’s front window; an autopsy later recorded 22 gunshot wounds. Dolph had been in town for his annual Thanksgiving turkey giveaway for his old neighborhood.

Investigators identified several suspects and made arrests in the months that followed. Cornelius Smith was arrested in December 2021 in Mississippi in connection with the theft of the Mercedes and was later indicted for the murder. Justin Johnson, also a rapper known as Straight Drop, was captured in Indiana in January 2022 after a nationwide manhunt. A third man, Hernandez Govan, was later indicted and accused of organizing the plot; Justin Johnson’s half-brother, Jermarcus Johnson, was charged with assisting the suspects after the killing.

Court testimony has included Smith admitting involvement and implicating Johnson as one of the shooters. Did anyone in Memphis at the time see the white Mercedes or notice suspicious activity near the bakery that afternoon?