In the summer of 2017, a man's life was tragically cut short on the streets of Memphis, Tennessee. Sandino Stone, a 36-year-old male, was at the intersection of Robeson Avenue and Manassas on the evening of August 6th when violence erupted. What began as a robbery quickly escalated, and Sandino Stone was fatally shot, his life ending abruptly at the scene near the Medical District.
He was with another man at the time, and they were confronted by two individuals who robbed them at gunpoint.
The investigation into the death of Sandino Stone led Memphis police to identify and apprehend three suspects. Terry Mason, then 26, was the first to be taken into custody. He was subsequently charged with first-degree murder in the perpetration of a robbery. Not long after, a second suspect, 28-year-old Demarcus 'M-Dog' Williams, was also arrested and faced the same serious charge. The following January, the U.S. Marshals Task Force located and arrested a third individual, 28-year-old Kenneth Gray, at a residence in Memphis, also charging him with first-degree murder in connection with the robbery and fatal shooting.
Further details emerged about one of the suspects, Demarcus Williams, who had a prior criminal record. Years before the incident involving Stone, Williams had been charged in a 2006 murder and later pleaded guilty to voluntary manslaughter and second-degree murder in that case. The judicial process for the three men charged in Sandino Stone's death began to unfold following their arrests. Williams himself was later killed in an encounter with sheriff's deputies in DeSoto County, Mississippi, on August 30, 2023.
