On the morning of August 27, 2021, 8-year-old A’layla Bassett was shot and killed inside her family’s home on Timothy Drive in the Whitehaven neighborhood of Memphis. Oliver reported seeing a silhouette in a bedroom closet and fired, later realizing the person struck was his daughter; the wound to her chest proved fatal despite emergency treatment at Methodist South Hospital.

Officers at the scene detained Oliver, who called the shooting a tragic accident caused by mistaken identity in the dark. He was arrested and charged with reckless homicide; bond was set at $112,500. Reports also note an August 2019 aggravated assault charge in Oliver’s history. No other suspects have been identified and the investigation remained open.

Did anyone in the Whitehaven area at that time hear or see anything that could help clarify what happened that night?