On November 20, 2017, 38-year-old Samantha Knight was shot in the neck and robbed of her bag while walking along Jackson Avenue near Chelsea in Memphis, Tennessee. Her bag contained two Bibles and personal papers. The robbery escalated into a fatal shooting that left the community grieving.

Investigators arrested four men in connection with events over two nights: Jutarian Malone, 20; Earl King, 21; Cortez Folson, 20; and Ryan Mobley, 21. The night before Knight’s death, November 19, 2017, the four were allegedly involved in the beating and shooting of a man outside a food market in the Frayser area; that victim was shot in the calf and Mobley was also shot in the leg. The following night, investigators say Malone, King, and Folson were in the same vehicle when they encountered Knight; a grand jury later indicted Malone, King, and Folson on first-degree felony murder charges in August 2018.

Did anyone in the area know Samantha Knight or witness either night’s events?