Devonte Taylor was 19 when he and 19-year-old Jereme Jones were found shot to death inside a car at Fletcher Creek Park in Cordova, a Memphis suburb, on the morning of February 3, 2018. Both young men had sustained multiple gunshot wounds from two different caliber weapons, and their deaths were the result of a robbery that had been planned under false pretenses.

The meeting had been arranged as a purported sale of two rifles; investigators say members of the Piru Bloods set up the encounter intending to steal the firearms. Authorities later identified multiple suspects. Juanyai Walls was convicted by a Criminal Court jury in July 2022 of two counts of first-degree murder and two counts of especially aggravated robbery and received two automatic life sentences. Kentrell Spight pleaded guilty to involvement and was sentenced to 35 years without parole. Two other co-defendants were reported to be awaiting trial at the time of Walls’ conviction.

Was anyone in the Cordova area that morning aware of people arranging a firearms sale at Fletcher Creek Park?