On April 8, 2024, Raven Martin, 36, was shot while driving near the intersection of Crump and Mississippi Boulevards in Memphis. She had picked up a friend from the courthouse and was carrying her two-year-old son and 27-year-old Antavius Gardner as passengers when the vehicle was struck by gunfire. Gardner was killed at the scene; Martin was critically wounded by two bullets, taken to Regional One Health, underwent surgery and later died. The child was also wounded in the legs and treated at Le Bonheur Children’s Hospital.

Martin, a Black/African American mother of five, was remembered by her family as warm and always smiling. The family believes the attack was targeted at the male passenger. The Memphis Police Department opened an investigation into the double homicide and the child’s injury; no arrests or public identifications of suspects have been announced.

If anyone has information about the shooting or saw activity near Crump and Mississippi Boulevards that morning, please share it with Memphis police.