William Parris Hughes, 34, was shot and killed on June 9, 2015, on Misty Moor Lane in the Hickory Hill neighborhood of southeast Memphis. Local reports framed the incident as a multi-victim shooting—headlines at the time noted one dead and others wounded—and Memphis police later released the victims’ names, identifying Hughes as the man who died.

Obituary notices and memorial pages use his middle name Parris and show he was a father and part of a close-knit family; friends and relatives left messages about the daughter he left behind and the pain of his loss.