On a cold evening in Memphis, Tennessee, the lives of two teenagers were tragically cut short. Seventeen-year-old Audrea Reed, a female student at Kingsbury High School, was walking in the Berclair neighborhood with her friend, 18-year-old Nicholas Millican, on the night of Friday, February 9, 2018. The pair were near the corner of Macon and Maria Avenue when a man on a bicycle began to follow their group of friends.
According to reports, the man attempted to speak with one of the girls
in the group. When Millican intervened, the situation escalated with horrifying speed. The man on the bicycle opened fire, fatally wounding both Audrea Reed and Nicholas Millican. The suspect then fled the scene on his bicycle, leaving a devastating scene behind him.
In the days that followed, the Memphis Police Department released a video to the public showing the suspect riding a bike and walking near the area where the shooting occurred. They appealed to the community for any information that could lead to the identification and arrest of the individual responsible for the double homicide. The video showed a man who investigators believed was connected to the senseless act of violence that took the lives of the two high school students.
Despite the release of the video and the pleas for information from law enforcement, there have been no publicly available reports of an arrest or the identification of a suspect in the years since the tragic deaths of Audrea Reed and Nicholas Millican. The case remains a painful and unresolved chapter for their families and the Memphis community, a stark reminder of a night when two young lives were lost to a sudden and brutal act of violence.
