Mauriceo Dandridge was 19 when he was killed on January 19, 2020, while waiting in a crowded line to enter the Truth Club on Winchester Road in Memphis. He had been at the club to support a friend who was performing. An argument in the line reportedly began after a man became angry with security; that man, later identified as 20-year-old Courtez Gray, then opened fire into the crowd. Dandridge was struck in the neck and died at the scene. Four other people were shot and taken to hospital; they were expected to survive.

Dandridge’s family held a vigil outside the nightclub in the days after the shooting; his mother said he was at the club for the first time. The Memphis Police Department investigated, and investigators later identified and arrested Courtez Gray as the primary suspect. In October 2020 a grand jury indicted Gray on first-degree murder in Dandridge’s death and on felony counts of attempted first-degree murder and employment of a firearm in the commission of a dangerous felony.