On the night of June 26, 2020, gunfire erupted in the 3200 block of Aden Street in Memphis’s Frayser neighborhood, turning an ordinary summer evening into a scene of panic and urgency. Andrew Alphonso Landfair, a 27-year-old Black man, was killed in the shooting, and another man was wounded, leaving detectives to piece together what happened and why the violence found that stretch of road.
In the days that followed, grief settled heavily over the people who knew him.
Records published through the funeral home described Landfair as having been born on August 13, 1992, in Memphis, and noted arrangements handled through M. J. Edwards - Whitehaven Funeral Chapel, with services scheduled for July 6, 2020, and interment at New Park Memorial Gardens. Notices circulating online carried the plain, heartbreaking finality of his name paired with the date he died, while condolences accumulated in the spaces where families and friends try to speak to someone who can no longer answer back.
As the case moved from shock to investigation, prosecutors later described the shooting as a homicide that also left a second victim injured. On March 31, 2021, the Shelby County District Attorney’s office announced that a grand jury had indicted Tyler Rodgers and Markalon Lewis in connection with Landfair’s death. The charges listed in the announcement included first-degree murder, attempted first-degree murder, and employment of a firearm in the commission of a dangerous felony, naming Rodgers as the accused shooter and Lewis as a codefendant indicted on the same counts.
Years later, online memorial pages continued to frame Landfair’s death as part of Memphis’s broader struggle with gun violence, collecting remembrances that read like small flashes of the life people said he carried—his smile, his humor, the way he showed up for friends and family. The public updates most readily available in widely accessible sources center on the indictments and the charged allegations against the two named defendants, while the story of the night itself remains, for many readers, a stark outline: a neighborhood street, a burst of gunfire, one life ended and another injured, and a case pushed forward into the courts.
