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On June 15, 2018, at about 1:45 a.m. in Memphis, Tennessee, 18-year-old Joshua Isaiah Strong was fatally shot while sitting in a car outside Gabby’s Salon on Hillshire Drive. Employees inside the barbershop heard gunshots and found Joshua gravely wounded; they performed CPR but he was pronounced dead at the scene. He had recently graduated from Riverdale High School in Murfreesboro and was the third of four children, remembered by family and friends as kind-hearted and well-mannered.

Early witnesses reported seeing a male in a white t-shirt walking around Joshua’s vehicle at the time of the shooting. Investigators initially sought surveillance footage from nearby businesses and later, based on tips, identified 24-year-old Cortney Walton as a suspect. Walton was taken into custody in connection with an unrelated incident and was subsequently charged with first-degree murder and booked into the Shelby County Jail as the Memphis Police Department continued to build the case.

Did anyone in the area see activity around Hillshire Drive that night or have surveillance footage that could help?