In the early morning hours of September 19, 2021, Leander Maxwell, 38, and his wife Keisha Marshall, 33, were shot inside a home on Macon Road in the Berclair area of Memphis. The couple’s young son was in the house and was awakened by gunfire. The shooting happened about 4 a.m. after their roommate, 34-year-old Michael Barkley, had been told he would need to move out by the end of the month.

Barkley shot Maxwell twice and Marshall four times in their bedroom. The wounded couple managed to flee; Maxwell reached a nearby gas station to get help while Marshall collapsed on the sidewalk. Both were taken to hospital and died of their injuries. Maxwell identified Barkley as the shooter before he died. Officers arrested Barkley later that morning at a relative’s home in Binghampton; he was allegedly found with a gun and confessed during questioning. He has a prior aggravated burglary conviction from 2018.

The Shelby County District Attorney General’s Office indicted Barkley on two counts of first-degree murder and employing a firearm during a dangerous felony; he is being held without bond. Did anyone in the Memphis area know the family or have information about the night of September 19, 2021?