Javier Jefferson, 22, was shot to death in South Memphis on April 11, 2020. Officers responding to calls about gunfire first found Jefferson in a grocery store parking lot near the 400 block of Buntyn at Midland with a fatal gunshot wound to the head. Two other men at that location were wounded in the same burst of shooting—one hit multiple times in the legs and another in the foot.

Minutes later, gunfire erupted again on the 1100 block of Wilson near East McLemore, where officers found 49-year-old James Coleman dead of multiple gunshot wounds and a 23-year-old man wounded. Detectives linked the two scenes and treated them as part of the same incident.

Nine days after the shootings, investigators arrested Tarvin Dean and Darrius Anderson. Dean was later indicted on two counts of first-degree murder and three counts of attempted first-degree murder; Anderson was indicted on facilitation counts corresponding to the same deaths and wounds. Jefferson’s funeral was handled at Superior Funeral Home in Memphis with services later that month.

Did anyone in South Memphis see activity in either parking lot that night or know the victims involved?