On the evening of May 24, 2020, 49-year-old Freddie Sledge was fatally shot while sitting at a card table in a field in the 400 block of Cambridge Avenue in South Memphis. Witnesses say a vehicle pulled up, a man identified as 32-year-old Derrick Conway exited, exchanged words with another man at the table and then opened fire. Sledge was struck multiple times, taken to a hospital and died shortly afterward.

Investigators used witness statements to identify Conway. He was located and taken into custody about two weeks after the shooting. In April 2021 a grand jury indicted Derrick Conway on first-degree murder; the case was placed with the Shelby County District Attorney’s Special Prosecution Unit.

Sledge’s death is described as an unintended killing; he was not the apparent target that night. Did anyone in the neighborhood attend that card game or see the vehicle involved?