Jonathon ’Johnny’ Paul Hamlett was 40 when he was killed during an attempted robbery at his home on Benjestown Road in the Northaven area of Memphis in July 2018. A master welder and outdoorsman who enjoyed fishing and hunting, Hamlett was shot in the head and died at the scene. A 42-year-old woman, Cherrie Bynum, was also shot multiple times but escaped and drove to a nearby fire station for help; her survival helped investigators identify suspects.

Within days police located two 39-year-old men, Beau Corder and Erick Schermerhorn, asleep in the bed of a pickup truck in Southaven, Mississippi. Officers recovered several long guns from the vehicle and later recovered the weapons used in the shooting. A Shelby County grand jury returned indictments in August 2018 charging both men with premeditated first-degree murder, murder in the commission of a felony, attempted first-degree murder, attempted especially aggravated robbery, and being a convicted felon in possession of a firearm.

Did anyone in the Northaven area know Johnny or see anything unusual around Benjestown Road that July day?