On the evening of February 1, 2021, a social media dispute escalated into deadly violence on Watson Street in the Parkway Village neighborhood of Memphis. Twenty-three-year-old Jamaya Auguster was seated in a vehicle with two other women outside her home in the 3900 block of Watson Street when 28-year-old Jasmine Mathes arrived. One of the women in the car identified Mathes as her ex-girlfriend. Auguster exited the vehicle and approached Mathes, and an altercation followed.

Mathes produced a handgun and opened fire. Auguster was struck in the shoulder and neck, taken to a nearby hospital, and died shortly after arrival. Mathes also fired at the other two women as they tried to flee; they were not injured. Two days later Mathes was arrested and later indicted by a Shelby County Grand Jury on second-degree murder, two counts of attempted second-degree murder, and employment of a firearm in the commission of a dangerous felony; she was held on a $500,000 bond and the case was assigned to the Shelby County District Attorney’s Domestic Violence Unit for prosecution.

Does anyone have information about the events that night or knew Jamaya Auguster that could help clarify what happened?