A disagreement over a $50 debt in Memphis turned deadly on January 2, 2024, when 42-year-old Myrico Deshun Carr was shot in the Hyde Park neighborhood and later died. Witnesses told police that Cornelius Walker, also 42, went to a Staten Avenue residence to collect the money, produced a handgun and pointed it at Carr. According to those accounts, a struggle for the weapon followed and Carr was shot; first responders found him deceased shortly after noon.

Walker, known as CC, later surrendered to police and gave his version that he had gone to ask for a partial payment, that Carr became angry, and that the gun discharged accidentally during a struggle when Carr tried to take the weapon. Walker was arrested and charged with second-degree murder and held in the Shelby County Jail. The murder charge was dismissed on March 1, 2024, for lack of prosecution; a petition to revoke a suspended sentence in an unrelated case was granted on June 28, 2024.

Does anyone who lived in Hyde Park or knew either man have information about what happened that day?