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Keierra McNeil, 32, told her family she was driving to a Walgreens store on Walnut Grove Road in Cordova to meet up with her unborn baby’s father to discuss child support. It was late in the day of August 20, 2020.
As the six-month pregnant woman sat in her car, a man walked up and fired several bullets, killing McNeil and her unborn child. The man then jumped into the passenger side of a nearby vehicle which fled the scene.
Although a suspect was arrested in the following days in the assassination style slaying, charges were later dropped for lack of evidence, according to the Shelby County Attorney General’s office.
The victim’s family says they are sure McNeil knew her assailant.
Now, three years later, the case remains active but is in the hands of Cold Case Unit detectives with the Memphis Police Department. Consider this a hot cold case.
Cold case detectives are asking the public’s help. Any information, including the whereabouts of a suspect or anyone who witnessed the crime should come forward, police say.
“We want justice for my daughter,” said McNeil’s mother. “We need more evidence in this case to come in.”
Call Crimestoppers at 528-CASH.
This is one of many cold case murders still under investigation. To learn of more such cases, visit http://www.memphiscoldcases.org/
Smallest detail could break
open even cold felony case
The classic definition of a “cold case” goes like this:
A cold case is a crime, or a suspected crime, that has not yet been fully resolved and is not the subject of a current criminal investigation by a law enforcement agency’s homicide squad, but for which new information could emerge from new witness testimony, re-examined archives, new or retained material evidence, or fresh activities of a suspect.
Of course, every case is unique.
Sometimes a case travels from a homicide bureau to a cold unit just to get fresh eyes and legs on the incident.
Other times detectives have run out of leads, and a case may need to be re-examined from its very beginning.
Some cold cases might be just 18 months old. Others could be decades old.
Always, detectives could use the help of citizens who know something. It may be something that seems trivial. But even a small fact could break a case wide open.
Read about more cold cases needing the public helps here.
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