Jason Montrell Delaney, a 43-year-old Black man from Memphis, Tennessee, died on March 25, 2021, after a predawn shooting inside an apartment at Treasure Island East in the Residences at Lakeview, off South Mendenhall Road. In the early morning hours, police arrived to find him down on the bathroom floor with gunshot wounds to his neck and upper back. He was rushed to a hospital, but he did not survive.
As detectives tried to piece together what happened in the moments before the gunfire, attention turned to the person with him in the apartment, Stephanie Briggs. Investigators said she offered shifting explanations—at points suggesting he had stepped out briefly and that she only heard a shot, then claiming he stumbled back inside before collapsing. The story kept changing, and the details didn’t hold. Under further questioning, authorities said she ultimately acknowledged that she had shot him during an argument.
Months later, the case moved from the initial investigation into the criminal courts. On August 19, 2021, the Shelby County District Attorney’s Office announced that a grand jury had indicted Briggs, 34, on second-degree murder and an additional felony count of convicted felon in possession of a handgun. The office said she was being held in the Shelby County Women’s Jail East, and that the prosecution was being handled through the District Attorney’s Domestic Violence Unit, which focuses on assaults and homicides involving intimate partners.
Public death notices and memorial listings preserved the bare fact of the loss—his passing on March 25, 2021, and the grief that followed—while the criminal case carried on in a separate, colder language of charges and procedure. In the sources available, the most concrete updates describe the indictment and the allegations underlying it; no further publicly accessible reporting in these sources clearly confirms a trial outcome, plea, or conviction after the indictment.
