On Thanksgiving Day 2017, 68-year-old Robert Wong, an Air Force veteran undergoing cancer treatment, was found shot in the shoulder and unresponsive in his Memphis home. His family had left for a couple of hours for their usual Thanksgiving brunch and returned around noon to find him; investigators determined the killing occurred between 8:30 a.m. and 10:30 a.m. The house’s side doors were unlocked and Wong’s keys and the family’s Honda Odyssey minivan were missing.

The day after the murder, some items from the stolen minivan were recovered at Fox Hollow Townhomes, and the damaged minivan was later found abandoned in the 5500 block of Crepe Myrtle. The case produced few leads at first and went cold, which distressed Wong’s family and the local community who remembered him as a devoted husband of 45 years, father, grandfather, and patriot.

In November 2021 police identified Dallas Perkins as a suspect and charged him with first-degree murder, first-degree murder in the perpetration of theft, and theft of property; Perkins was 15 at the time of the killing and 19 when charged. The grand jury forwarded a request for prosecution to the District Attorney General’s Office and initial proceedings were set for Juvenile Court because of Perkins’s age at the time of the offense.

Did anyone in Memphis see the Honda Odyssey on Thanksgiving morning or notice suspicious activity near the Fox Hollow Townhomes that day?