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On the evening of August 20, 2017, 34-year-old Tannica LaShea Pruitt was shot multiple times on the porch of a home in the 1400 block of Decatur Street in North Memphis. She was taken to the Regional Medical Center but died of her injuries. Pruitt was a mother of two.

Witnesses said the shooting followed a confrontation tied to a dispute involving the daughter of one of the men later charged in the case. Marcus Buford, 45, allegedly confronted Pruitt, then instructed 33-year-old Donald McCoy, known as Struball, to hand him a gun; Buford is said to have fired the shots. Both men were arrested and held in the Shelby County Jail. In August 2018 a grand jury indicted Buford for first-degree murder and for being a convicted felon in possession of a handgun; McCoy was indicted for facilitation of first-degree murder and for being a convicted felon in possession of a handgun. The Shelby County District Attorney’s Special Prosecution Unit was assigned to the case.

Does anyone have information about Pruitt, the events on Decatur Street that night, or witnesses who saw what happened?