Jeffrey Roth was 33 when he was shot and killed by his neighbor, Malik Hamud, on June 17, 2014, in Cordova, Tennessee. Roth suffered gunshot wounds to his abdomen, hand, and shoulder and died shortly after at Regional Medical Center. Police found a large folded pocketknife near Roth’s body; he had no firearm on him. An active arrest warrant for failure to appear on a traffic charge was outstanding for Roth the night he was killed.

Roth’s father said Roth’s problems began after his mother’s death when he was 16, leading to drug use, criminal charges in New Jersey, and later domestic incidents with his wife, Nicole, in Memphis; she had sought an order of protection and Roth had been accused of threatening a former boss. The Memphis Police Department investigation concluded Hamud acted in self-defense, and the Shelby County District Attorney’s Office did not file charges against him.

Did anyone in the Cordova neighborhood know Roth or witness what happened on Sanga Road that night?