Two teenage boys who were killed in similar fashion on sunny days are among the cold case homicides in the unsolved files of the Memphis Police Department.
Richard Jordan was 10 years old. He was in a car with relatives and friends the afternoon of November 13, 2017 when shots were fired from three cars that came alongside their car on Airways Boulevard at Ketchem Road in Frayser. Richard and two others in the car were hit by bullets. The other two including a 12-year-old boy lived, but the youngest died at the hospital.
The shooters’ cars were described as a gold Chevrolet Malibu with missing
hubcaps, a black Chrysler 300 and a gray sedan, make unknown. The cars raced east on Ketchum.
On a warm December day in 2019, Demonte Johnson, 13, was walking toward home in the 800 block of Looney Avenue. It was 11 in the morning, December 6.
Suddenly bullets were fired and young Demonte, known as Monte to his friends, fell to the ground. Paramedics rushed him to Regional One Hospital where doctors frantically tried to save him but his injuries were fatal. In his case a special award of $15,000 was posted by the Governor’s office.
While all cold cases are tragedies and deserve being solved, it’s when children die and cases go on that justice seems too far away. This is true in the deaths of three children in two separate drive-by shootings January 19 and 20, 2020.
The children lost were Ashlyn Luckett, only 6, Jadon Knox, 10, and LaQuan
Boyd, 16. A $20,000 award is available in those cases.
Anyone with information on these cases should contact CrimeStoippers at (901) 528-CASH (2274). Large case awards are available in these murders.
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