A neighbor dispute in the Whitehaven area of Memphis turned deadly on the evening of May 14, 2025. Delmon Williams was found lying unresponsive in the street on Howard Drive near Berta Road and pronounced dead at the scene after a shooting.

Investigators identified a suspect as Williams’s 74-year-old neighbor, Clarence Johnson Jr. The arrest affidavit says home security footage shows Johnson walking down his driveway, approaching Williams in the street and firing multiple times before returning to his home. A family member told police Johnson had made threats to kill his brother in the weeks before the shooting.

Johnson was arrested and charged with first-degree murder; the apparent motive is a long-standing feud, with Johnson believing Williams was poisoning his grass and stealing his mail. Does anyone in Whitehaven have information about tensions between these neighbors or the events that led up to May 14?