On the night of December 22, 2016, a domestic dispute at Rolling Hills Apartments on North Watkins Street in Memphis ended with a fatal shooting. Kameron Taylor, 24, was involved in an argument with his girlfriend that became physical. Witnesses said her father, 51-year-old George Mull Sr., intervened and produced a firearm; a single gunshot fatally wounded Taylor. Emergency crews pronounced Taylor dead at the scene around 11 p.m.

The Memphis Police Department arrested Mull at the scene and charged him with voluntary manslaughter. The case was recorded as the city’s 223rd homicide that year. Taylor was a father of two; friends and family mourned his death just days before Christmas. Questions remain about the circumstances that led to the use of deadly force and whether it was legally justified in defense of the girlfriend.