Rashid Tony Awwad

In the early evening of a mid-May day in Memphis, Tennessee, what began as a disagreement over a cell phone repair tragically escalated into a fatal encounter for Rashid Tony Awwad. On May 15, 2017, the 27-year-old male was at his job at a Boost Mobile store located on Winchester Road. An argument ignited inside the shop between Awwad and a group of individuals who had come in for a phone repair. The dispute became heated enough that Awwad requested one of the men to leave the premises and instr ...