In the early morning hours of November 9, 2021, a disagreement in the Frayser neighborhood of Memphis, Tennessee, turned fatal when 42-year-old Richard Varnadoe was shot and killed. Varnadoe had gone to a residence on Winston Drive to meet an employee; a neighbor, Edwin Lorenzo Bailey, was at the home attempting to sell a sawed-off shotgun. The argument focused on the proper way to load the firearm after Varnadoe suggested Bailey was handling it incorrectly.

Bailey reportedly fled briefly, returned, and shot Varnadoe a second time. Paramedics found Varnadoe with gunshot wounds to his face and chest; he was pronounced dead at the scene.

Edwin Bailey fled Memphis but was arrested by U.S. Marshals in Detroit on November 19, 2021. He was charged with first-degree murder, attempted first-degree murder, and employment of a firearm in the commission of a dangerous felony, extradited to Tennessee, held without bond, and indicted by a grand jury in May 2022.

Did anyone in Frayser see Bailey at the Winston Drive residence before or after the shootings, or have information about the sawed-off shotgun?