Willie Frank Lawson II, a 21-year-old from Memphis, Tennessee, is confirmed deceased; an obituary lists his date of death as November 8, 2021. Separate news reports from that same day describe a shooting in the 3900 block of St. Elmo Avenue in Memphis in which an unidentified man was found shot inside a vehicle and later died at a hospital. Elmo Avenue shooting to Willie Lawson.

Did anyone in the Memphis area have contact with Willie Lawson around November 8, 2021, or have information that could clarify the circumstances of his death?