On the night of April 24, 2011, at about 9:44 p.m., Marcos Hernandez was shot and killed in the parking lot of Willow Creek Apartments, 2499 Ketchum, in Memphis, Tennessee. Officers from the Airways Station found the 47-year-old lying unresponsive; Memphis Fire Department paramedics pronounced him dead at the scene.

Witnesses at the complex reported seeing two unidentified Black males fire at Hernandez and then flee. The Memphis Police Department’s Homicide Bureau handled the investigation and later asked the public for help, but the shooters’ identities remain unknown. Reports give Hernandez’s age as 46 in his obituary and 47 in the incident report.

The motive and the reason Hernandez was in the parking lot that night have not been released, and no arrests have been announced. If anyone was in or near Willow Creek Apartments that evening or has information about the two men seen fleeing, please come forward.