On the evening of May 6, 2018, an altercation in North Memphis escalated into a deadly shooting and car chase. Around 9:30 p.m., a southbound vehicle pulled alongside a grey Chevrolet Malibu carrying several passengers on North Cleveland Street near North Watkins, near the Crosstown Concourse, and multiple shots were fired. Eighteen-year-old passenger Deandre Doyle Rogers was pronounced dead at the scene; another 18-year-old, Dejuan Hill, later died at a local hospital. Four other occupants, ages 14 to 22, were critically wounded.

Friends later said they believed the car’s occupants were not the intended targets. Police described the suspect vehicle as a gold 4-door sedan. In September 2019 a grand jury indicted 24-year-old Jarmon Smith on two counts of first-degree murder for the deaths of Rogers and Hill, plus four counts of attempted first-degree murder and related firearm charges; he was held on a $2 million bond and the Shelby County District Attorney’s Crime Strategies Prosecution Unit handled the case.

Was anyone in North Memphis that night able to see a gold 4-door sedan or the grey Malibu before the shooting?