Theodis Pitchford, a 25-year-old Black man from Memphis, Tennessee, is recorded in online death notices and memorial entries as having died on May 24, 2017. His name also appears in connection with a high-profile shooting at Oak Court Mall on the evening of March 6, 2014, when gunfire sparked panic among shoppers and the mall closed while police worked the scene.

Police and witnesses said a verbal confrontation preceded the March 2014 shooting and that the victim and the people suspected in the incident appeared to know one another; four men were detained that night. Later prosecution accounts identified Pitchford as the person wounded in that shooting. Otis Reddic Jr. entered an Alford plea and was sentenced in Criminal Court; the listed convictions included attempted second-degree murder, employing a firearm during the commission of a dangerous felony, and seven counts of reckless endangerment, with a 14-year sentence noted.

Did anyone who knew Theodis Pitchford or who was at Oak Court Mall on March 6, 2014, see details that could clarify what happened then and how it relates to his later death?