On the night of December 31, 2016, Deadrick Manns, a 24-year-old Black man, was sitting in a vehicle on Shannon Avenue near Warford in Memphis when multiple shots were fired into the car at about 9:30 p.m. He was transported to Methodist North Hospital with critical injuries and died there on January 17, 2017.

Memphis investigators concluded the shooting was a targeted assault rather than a random act. The probe encountered reluctance from some community members to provide information, but detectives eventually identified multiple people believed responsible and arrested them on charges that included murder and attempted murder. The case proceeded through a complex trial process and resulted in convictions and long prison sentences for those defendants.

If anyone knew Deadrick, was present that night, or has information that wasn’t shared with police, please come forward.