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Antoine Cortez Sims Jr., 18, of West Memphis, was shot during a drug transaction in Memphis’s Binghampton neighborhood and died of his wounds two days later on September 17, 2020. Sims and a friend had driven to an apartment parking lot on North Merton Street to buy marijuana. As their vehicle pulled away, the seller allegedly opened fire, striking both young men in the back of the head. Sims’s friend survived and was released from the hospital; Sims later died at a hospital.

Investigators identified 19-year-old Kenneth Givens as the shooter. He was arrested on December 15, 2020, and a grand jury later returned an indictment that included first-degree murder for the death of Antoine Sims Jr., two counts of attempted first-degree murder, and employment of a firearm in the commission of a dangerous felony.

Did anyone in Binghampton see the vehicle or the transaction on the day this shooting occurred?