Awards over and above regular CrimeStoppers awards are sometimes offered by individuals and groups to help solve cases. Periodically the amounts change or even are no longer offered. To learn what is available in an individual case presently call (901) 525-5122. Call tips or extra award queries anonymously to 528-CASH (2274) or via secure webmail.
Kelsay Franklin
$12,000 extra award is now available for information helping police identify the person who shot Kelsay Franklin, 27, in January 2024 at an apartment complex in the Lester community.
$50,000 award offered
That amount is available in a mass shooting in which five were wounded and 22-year-old Matthew Williams was killed in Hickory Hills. Call 528-CASH with information that could identify the shooters.
Mallory Morgan, 27, an employee of UT Memphis, was shot and killed as she parked outside her Midtown apartment May 12, 2022. A $20,000 award is available for information.
Jacobi Price
$7,500 extra award available in murder of Jacobi Price
Jacobi Ryan Price, 19, was shot and killed in an apparent carjacking March 4, 2022 on Carnes Avenue near the University of Memphis. He was shot several times and thrown from his own vehicle, an Infinity. Police later stopped the same car and arrested three men, including a juvenile, on unrelated charges.
$10,000 extra award in 2020 murder of pregnant woman
Keierra McNeil and her unborn child were shot and killed in Cordova August 20, 2020.
She was sitting in her car in the parking lot of a Walgreen’s store on Walnut Grove Road that afternoon. A man walked up and fired several shots before fleeing in a car.
$14,000 award has been posted in arson death of Memphis firefighter
Lt. Jeffrey Norman died while fighting a fire in south Memphis July 18, 2023. Two days later investigators ruled the fire was started by an arsonist.
A $25,000 extra award available in Timothy Odum homicide
Tim Odum was killed near his car outside a convenience store at the intersection of Ford Road and King Avenue the night of June 1, 2023. At least two men are believed involved in this shooting.
The family has increased the award amount, and has posted billboards in the city, in the hopes of helping detectives solve the case. It is believed there may be witnesses to the crime who have yet to come forward.
“I just want to know what happened and who killed my brother,” said Ciciro Perry.
Odum was 43. He wore a prosthetic leg, which was taken in the assault.
Anyone with information should contact CrimeStoppers at 528-CASH (2274). All calls and text messages are kept anonymous at all times.
$30,000 award available in Gloria Johnson murder
An extraordinary award of $30,000 is available to anyone who can supply information that helps police make an arrest in the 1974 murder of 19-year-old Gloria P. Johnson. The cold case homicide has been given renewed investigative focus thanks to her family’s posted award money of $28,000. That, with the $2,000 available from CrimeStoppers could go to someone who provides new information.
Ms. Johnson’s body was found by firefighters investigating a brush fire in southwest Memphis October 16, 1974. She was not from that neighborhood and police believe she was killed elsewhere and her body was placed under a pile of branches and set fire.
Call CrimeStoppers at 528-CASH (2274) or the Memphis Police Department’s Cold Case Unit at (901) 636-3300.
$10,000 award available in Clarence Teal murder
Victim Clarence Teal
An extraordinary CrimeStoppers award of $10,000 is available to anyone whose anonymous tip helps police solve the murder of Clarence Teal on August 28, 2022.
Memphis Police detectives need the public’s help identifying three suspects in the killing that occurred late in the afternoon on a Sunday on Henry Avenue in the Highland Heights neighborhood of east Memphis. Video camera footage clearly shows three hooded men in all black clothing as they pull up to Teal, 42, in a dark gray Infinity.
The suspects are all black males. One was driving and the other two held automatic weapons. After a brief struggle they shot Teal several times. He was found by patrolmen who arrived by 4:45 p.m. Paramedics transported Teal to Regional One Hospital. He was pronounced dead on arrival.
Teal’s family posted $8,000 with CrimeStoppers in October. That combined with the $2,000 available in homicide cases from CrimeStoppers raises the total in this murder to $10,000 to anyone who calls 528-CASH (2274) with information helping authorities make an arrest. All calls are anonymous and cash payments are made subsequently if information receive helps solve the case.
Suspect number 1
Suspect number 2
Suspect number 3 (driver)
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Suspect vehicle
SOLVED: Award of $10,000 made available in man’s carjacking homicide case
A $10,000 CrimeStoppers award is available to anyone with information that leads to an arrest in the murder of Terry Henderson Jr. during an apparent carjacking in Raleigh on Friday, August 12, 2022.
Henderson’s body was found in the street just before midnight at the intersection of Kerwin and Battlefield drives. He had been shot several times. His Nissan Maxima was found the next day outside the Breezy Point Apartment complex in Frayser.
An anonymous donor has put up $8,000. That will be combined with $2,000 regularly available from CrimeStoppers in homicide cases for a total of $10,000 cash award available to a successful tipster. All calls to CrimeStoppers 528-CASH (2274) number are strictly anonymous.
Henderson worked for Youth Villages. He was the second staff member to die this year in unrelated incidents of violence.
Mallory Morgan
$20,000 award available
An extra award of $18,000 cash now is available to any citizen who contacts CrimeStoppers with information that will lead to an arrest in the May 12, 2022 homicide case of 27-year-old Mallory Morgan. The amount when added to $2,000 paid by CrimeStoppers in homicide cases, amounts to a $20,000 award.
Morgan, an employee of UT Memphis, died as she drove into her apartment complex — the Tuscany Midtown Place Apartments — about 12:30 a.m. After gunfire, her car drove into another parked car. She was found inside her car by police.
Drew Rainer
$5,000 award offered for help in murder of Rhodes student
An extra award of $5,000 cash now is available to any citizen who contacts CrimeStoppers with information that will help authorities make more arrests in the Oct. 3, 2021 home invasion homicide case in which young Andrew (Drew) Rainer Jr. was killed.
Several individuals broke into a house on McLean Boulevard in Midtown in the early morning hours that day. Rainer and a second victim were shot. Rainer died at the scene.
Rainess Holmes, 36, was arrested and charged with first degree murder and other felonies two days after the crime. Detectives seek the public’s help in identifying the other perpetrators of the crime.
The Rainer family put up $3,000. Added to CrimeStoppers maximum of $2,000 makes for a $5,000 award in this case.
$5,000 in extra awards announced slaying of man at his home
The amount is offered by the family of Herman Wright. He was shot in the morning hours as he sat on the porch of his home on Preston Street in south Memphis. Someone knows something about this murder and investigators need help solving this crime.
Wright was 59 years old, a father and brother. The family’s award makes a total award of $6,000 possible in this case for information that can lead to an arrest.
$5,000 in extra awards announced in drive-by homicide
The amount is offered by the family of Rafael Smith. He was shot December 2, 2019, about 2 a.m. as he travelled on Elvis Presley Blvd. and approached the intersection with South Parkway East.
A white SUV drove alongside and someone fired multiple shots into Smith’s car. He died soon after from his injuries.
Smith was 34 years old, a husband, father and businessman. The family, which lost his older brother in a similar kind of shooting two years before, offers the extra reward in the hopes someone will come forward with information that will help authorities make an arrest. The family’s award makes a total award of $6,000 possible in this case.
$9,000 in extra awards announced in expressway shooting
The family of Kari Hardin has provided the extra award money for an arrest in a shooting in the early hours of July 3, 2020 on I-240 near Poplar Avenue. Hardin was driving with a passenger when multiple shots struck her car and blew out the windows.
The vehicle from which the shots were fired may have been a late-model SUV Yukon. An assault rifle with military-grade ammunition was used in the crime. Hardin was hit by several bullets. She arrived at the hospital in critical condition but has survived the assault. The passenger wasn’t hit. The extra award makes as much as $10,000 award possible for information leading to the arrest of the individual(s) responsible.
$5,000 offered for tips leading to the arrest of those involved in a shooting outside outside a Frayser group home in October. DeMario Hughley, who lived and worked at the home, had stepped outside one night to smoke a cigarette when he was approached by one or more individuals who shot him to death. Hughley’s wife, Memphis Police Officer Rosetta Hughley, is due to have a child her husband will never know.
$6,000 offered for tips leading to the ID and charging of the driver of a silver Ford Mustang in the hit-and-run death of Christopher Phillips, 32, at 8:20 p.m. February 22, 2017 on Madison Ave. at Morrison St. just west of Overton Square. Witnesses said the car continued east. The victim’s photo:
Police released this surveillance video screenshot.
$6,000 offered for information leading to the ID and charging of one or more suspects who just before midnight on July 26, 2016 shot Monique Brown, 23, at her home at the Madison at Cypress Lake Apartments near Quince Road and Bill Morris Parkway. Ms. Brown died a short time later at Regional One hospital. The victim’s photo:
$4,000 offered for information leading to the ID and charging of one or more suspects who on January 20, 2017 shot 20-year-old Yasna Tahiro as he drove a car in the 5300 block of Gloucester in Raleigh. He died shortly afterwards at Regional One hospital. Tahiro’s family is from Ethiopia and he came to Memphis a year ago from Minnesota. The victim’s photo:
