Bertram Eugene Thompson was 29 when he was found dead in the early morning of February 4, 2016, in Memphis. Passing motorists discovered him face down at the intersection of Outland Road and Cromwell Avenue in the Parkway Village area at about 2:40 a.m.; he had sustained multiple gunshot wounds and was pronounced dead at the scene.

Investigators used surveillance footage to identify a red extended-cab pickup truck seen near the scene. Police say Thompson was approached by several men who were inside that truck shortly before the shooting. The pickup, which belonged to a relative of one of the suspects, was later found burned in a field in Robinsonville, Mississippi.

In December 2021, Jonathan L. Smith, then 27, pleaded guilty to second-degree murder and attempted aggravated robbery in connection with Thompson’s death and received a 30-year sentence. Reports at that time noted three co-defendants were scheduled for court appearances the following week. Thompson was a Bishop Byrne High School graduate and father to a son, Bertram E. Thompson II.

Did anyone in the Parkway Village area that night see the red pickup or the men who approached Thompson?