On the afternoon of December 16, 2024, Ellen Buford Granberry, 53, and her longtime friend Sharon Wilson, 54, were found shot to death inside a gray Kia on Manson Road in Southwest Memphis. The vehicle was reported to be riddled with bullet holes, and both women were pronounced dead at the scene.

Granberry was a master hairstylist and owner of One In A Million Hair Salon, mother to three sons, and described by friends and family as a vibrant, creative professional whose death deeply affected the local beauty community. The inquiry into the double homicide expanded after investigators executing a search warrant on Grosvenor Avenue in an unrelated vehicle theft ring probe recovered stolen vehicles, drugs and numerous firearms. Ballistics testing tied some recovered weapons to the shootings.

Those ballistics links led to arrests of 21-year-old Desmond Emery and 22-year-old Jonathan Rush, both charged with first-degree murder; Rush was also charged as a convicted felon in possession of a firearm. The investigation is ongoing. Did anyone in the Memphis area know Ellen or Sharon, or have information about their last movements on December 16?