Delmontae Rashun Moore was a 21-year-old Black man described as wild and loving and known to some as coota. A former student of Trezevant High School, Moore was shot and killed on the afternoon of December 17, 2020, at a residence on Cloister Avenue in the Parkway Village neighborhood of Memphis. Officers arrived after a 4:41 p.m. shooting call and located Moore with a fatal gunshot wound.

Moore’s girlfriend, Talesha Walls, was at the scene and initially told officers she had gone inside her mother’s home briefly and then found Moore on the ground, prompting her to call 911. After being taken to the homicide office and read her Miranda Rights, Walls agreed to speak with investigators and, according to police, admitted to shooting Moore with a handgun. Authorities arrested Walls and charged her with second-degree murder and false reporting in December 2020; the case was set to proceed through the judicial system.

Are there details about Moore’s last hours or the neighborhood that might help explain what happened that afternoon?