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MEMPHIS, TN – Citizen tips to CrimeStoppers helped authorities in five murder cases during the past month.

Three of the five tips supplied information that identified homicide suspects. The other two tips provided the location of murder suspects who were at large.

“This is the largest number of solved homicide cases due to tips in one month’s time in our memory,” said David Wayne Brown, executive director of CrimeStoppers of Memphis and Shelby County.

These were the individuals charged with murder counts as the result of tips to 528-CASH (2274):

Jetarius Young for the shooting death of a man in the 700 block of Ioka Street June 25.
Dewaun Harris for the shooting death of a security guard at the Paradise Lounge on Winchester July 12.
Kenneth Riley, a juvenile, for the killing of a man and hiding his body in November of 2025.

Tips in July helped police find and capture two others already named by police in homicide cases. And in another case, homicide detectives arrested a woman who hid a firearm used in a homicide, thanks to a CrimeStoppers tip.

So far this year, 17 tips have led to charges and arrests in homicide cases. There were 24 homicides solved by tips in 2025 and 25 in 2024.

The three anonymous tipsters who identified suspects in July were each awarded $4,000 in cash.

A tip during the month about drug sales in a Whitehaven house also led to the arrest of three suspected organized gang criminals on multiple drug and gun charges.

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MEMPHIS, TN – A CrimeStoppers cash award of more than $20,000 is available to anyone who can help authorities identify a trio of robbers in a brazen midday armed robbery August 29, 2025 outside a Kroger store at 1212 E. Shelby Drive.

A black Nissan Murano bearing an un-readable temporary tag parked behind a Loomis truck at 11:03 that morning. The masked gunmen held automatic rifles on the Loomis driver, ordered him to the ground, then grabbed an unspecified amount of cash in bags from inside the truck before fleeing. They were last seen driving northbound toward Raines Road.

Authorities believe the same three men are responsible for another Loomis robbery at an ATM outside a First Horizon bank in February. They fled that time with multiple containers of cash in a white Nissan Altima that was stolen and later found.

Loomis has provided $20,000 in the case, and CrimeStoppers of Memphis and Shelby County placed the money in a special account for awards. The amount will be in addition to whatever the CrimeStoppers Awards Committee of community volunteers decides will be paid out of regular CrimeStoppers funds.

The Memphis Police Department released descriptions of the suspects. All three are thinly-built black males wearing black hoodies, with masks hiding all but their eyes. Two men wore black pants and the other one wore white. Each was armed with an AR-style assault rifle.

“We believe there are people in the community who know who the robbers are,” said David Wayne Brown, executive director of CrimeStoppers. “We gladly will pay this significant amount at an undisclosed location for anonymous information to our tips line that helps bring about a charge and/or an arrest.”

The number is (901) 528-CASH (2274). Every call is guaranteed to remain anonymous.

Memphis, TN – CrimeStoppers of Memphis and Shelby County today announced a $5,000 award for information that helps authorities identify the shooter in the death of Jerry C. Shields, Jr. July 13, 2025.

Shields, who worked for UPS, was walking home early that morning along a busy stretch of Elvis Presley Boulevard at Elliston Street. He was only a few houses away from his destination when someone following him shot him in the back. The shooter also took Shields’ Sketchers shoes, his cell phone and umbrella.

The family has raised $1,000. The money added to the $4,000 CrimeStoppers will pay for anonymous information leading to an arrest or charge in the case, making the full award $5,000.

MEMPHIS, TN – CrimeStoppers today announced it now has an award of $21,000 to pay to any citizen who anonymously contacts CrimeStoppers with information that will help identify one or more suspects in the July 19 shooting death of Corey Adams, a University of Mississippi freshman football player.

An additional $11,000 donation was received from the family by CrimeStoppers of Memphis and Shelby County from, thanks to a GoFundMe drive the family mounted. The amount has been added to the $10,000 CrimeStoppers already had posted in the homicide case.

Adams, 18 and a touted defensive end from New Orleans, was killed, and several others were injured, when gunfire erupted after a pool party in Cordova.

The Shelby County Sheriff’s Office reported more than 40 rifle and pistol shell casings were found at a nearby residential scene. Chief Deputy Anthony Buckner said there are potentially several suspects in the case.

“We’re sure that somebody knows something that could help solve this case,” said David Wayne Brown, executive director of CrimeStoppers. “We simply ask that people contact CrimeStoppers at 528-CASH (2274) anonymously and provide details that will make him or her eligible for the extraordinary award.

MEMPHIS, TN – CrimeStoppers today announced it has an award of $10,000 to pay to any citizen who anonymously contacts CrimeStoppers with information that will help identify one or more suspects in the July 19 shooting death of Corey Adams, a University of Mississippi freshman football player.

Adams, 18 and a touted defensive end from New Orleans, was killed, and several others were injured, when gunfire erupted after a pool party in Cordova.

The Shelby County Sheriff’s Office reported more than 40 rifle and pistol shell casings were found at a nearby residential scene. Chief Deputy Anthony Buckner said there are potentially several suspects in the case.

A $6,000 donation was received by CrimeStoppers of Memphis and Shelby County from an anonymous source. The amount, added to the $4,000 CrimeStoppers customarily pays for information that identifies a suspect in a homicide, makes the award now in this case a total of $10,000.

“In virtually every case, at least one person knows enough information that could help investigators make an arrest,” said David Wayne Brown, executive director of CrimeStoppers. “We simply ask that someone contact CrimeStoppers at 528-CASH (2274) and provide information that will make him or her eligible for the extraordinary award.”

Memphis — An extraordinary award of $50,000 now is available to be paid to anyone who provides information that helps identify one or more people responsible for the murder of Matthew Williams April 9 , 2025 at a meeting of a gun violence prevention organization.

​The extra award of $46,000 — provided by anonymous donors in the city — is added to the amount regularly available from CrimeStoppers of Memphis and Shelby County in homicide cases, up to $4,000.

​The incident occurred at a meeting of the Memphis Allies program of Youth Villages in southeast Memphis. Six people were shot and one participant – Williams, 22 – died at the scene. Donations have been coming to CrimeStoppers ever since.

​“The Memphis Police Department’s investigators need the public’s help,” said David Wayne Brown, director of CrimeStoppers. “We are sure there are people with knowledge of this crime. We hope this award amount will bring someone forward to contact us. Every call or text is guaranteed anonymous.”

​The award is one of the largest ever offered by CrimeStoppers.

CrimeStoppers of Memphis and Shelby County today announced it now has up to $25,000 to pay to any citizen who anonymously contacts CrimeStoppers with information that will help identify one or more suspects in the April 9 shooting at a gun violence prevention meeting of the Memphis Allies program of Youth Villages.

Six people were shot and one – Matthew Williams, 22 – died at the scene.

Thanks to a donation, the extra award in the case had been $10,000. Now, several more donors have provided funding that raises the amount to $25,000. That amount will be paid out to the person who provides a successful tip that leads to a warrant and/or an arrest in the case.

“I am sure someone knows something that could lead to an arrest in this murder,” said David Wayne Brown, executive director of CrimeStoppers. “It could be someone who saw something that could help investigators, or someone who has learned something since the shooting.”

All calls and text messages to CrimeStoppers at 528-CASH (2274) are strictly anonymous.

MEMPHIS, TN – CrimeStoppers today announced it has up to $10,000 to pay to any citizen who anonymously contacts CrimeStoppers with information that will help identify one or more suspects in the August 27, 2023 shooting of Charlisa Reed in downtown Memphis.

Reed, 22, had gone to a restaurant with a friend early that morning after work. They left the restaurant just before 3 a.m. and got into Reed’s car which was parked on a busy South Main near Pontotoc Street. Just then a light-gray Dodge Charger with tinted windows turned onto Main and shots were fired from a passenger window.

Reed later died of her injuries. Two other individuals were shot but survived.

“I want to know why she was killed and who is responsible,” said her mother Anita Wilkins, who posted $6,000. That amount added to the customary $4,000 for identifying a suspect brings the total potential award to a tipster to $10,000.

Wilkins found a video of the shooting from a local merchant. She believes a second shooter may have been standing nearby.

“My daughter had just started her own business and was planning to go to barber school. I want justice for her. Too many of our young people are dying and don’t have an opportunity to live their lives,” Wilkins said.

Memphis Police detectives say the case remains under investigation. Anyone with information on this shooting should contact CrimeStoppers at 528-CASH (2274).

MEMPHIS, TN – CrimeStoppers announced it has up to $10,000 to pay to any citizen who anonymously contacts CrimeStoppers with information that will help identify one or more suspects in the April 19, 2024 shooting of Khaled Eleiwa.

Friends of the owner of Beauty Royal in the 3400 block of North Watkins Street have provided $6,000 for the award. The funds, when combined with the $4,000 normally paid by CrimeStoppers in homicide cases, brings the total to $10,000 for information leading to a charge or arrest in the case.

It was only 20 minutes before noon when Eleiwa was shot outside his beauty supply store. Three suspects in a maroon 2011 Toyota Sequoia with temporary Tennessee tags drove up. The men got out of the vehicle, which had been stolen, and began firing. Eleiwa was dead by the time police and paramedics arrived.

The suspects were dressed in black clothing, wore gloves and had head coverings or masks on.

“In a case like this, with video footage available, someone recognizes a suspect or knows what happened and who are the likely shooters,” said David Wayne Brown, executive director of CrimeStoppers. “We urge anyone who knows something about this killing of a man who was well-liked in the community to call 528-CASH (2274).”

Memphis City Council has added $11,000 to the CrimeStoppers $4,000 award in murder cases for a total of $15,000 now available from the crime-fighting organization in the Orange Mound shooting.

“The funds have been made immediately available and now are in a bank account and ready to be paid out to any citizen who calls 528-CASH with information that helps Memphis Police investigators identify suspects,” said David Wayne Brown, Executive Director of CrimeStoppers.

In addition to the CrimeStoppers award, the U.S. Marshall’s Office has offered a $10,000 award.