A dispute in a South Memphis neighborhood ended in a fatal shooting on May 23, 2014. The victim was 47-year-old Michael Richard; the shooter was 46-year-old Marlon Boyd.

Two days later, on May 25, 2014, police executed a search warrant at a South Memphis apartment connected to Boyd. Officers say Boyd hid in a bedroom before surrendering; the bedroom reportedly contained two loaded handguns, a Smith & Wesson .38 revolver and a Ruger .357 revolver. Boyd was later tried in both federal and state court.

In April 2016 Boyd was convicted in federal court of felony possession of the firearms and in August 2016 received a federal sentence of 120 months. A state jury found him guilty of first-degree murder on August 5, 2016; the murder conviction carried life without the possibility of parole. Did anyone in South Memphis at the time see or hear anything that could shed more light on Michael Richard’s last moments?