On a tragic day in Memphis, Tennessee, the lives of two sisters were cut short in a burst of violence that stemmed from a domestic dispute. Kayla Brown, a 20-year-old female, and her 27-year-old sister, Kendall Brown, were shot and killed on April 13, 2017. The sisters were at Kendall's home in the Hickory Hill neighborhood when the fatal shooting occurred.
The suspect in the double homicide was identified as George Muhammad, Kendall Brown's husband.
According to an affidavit, Muhammad confessed to the police that he had come home early from work and found his wife with another man. This discovery led to a physical altercation over a gun. Muhammad claimed that after he gained control of the weapon, he 'blacked out' and subsequently shot and killed his wife and his sister-in-law. After the shooting, Muhammad fled the scene but later turned himself into the Memphis police at the Crump Station precinct.
In the wake of the sisters' deaths, it was revealed that there had been a history of domestic violence. Court records showed that George Muhammad had been convicted of domestic assault in 2012 for attacking Kendall Brown while she was six months pregnant. For that offense, he was sentenced to just one day in jail.
George Muhammad was charged with two counts of first-degree murder for the deaths of Kayla and Kendall Brown. On September 28, 2017, a grand jury indicted him on these charges, and he was held without bond in the Shelby County Jail. The case was assigned to the Shelby County District Attorney's Domestic Violence Prosecution Unit. Despite the initial charges and indictment, information regarding the final outcome of the trial, including a conviction or sentencing, is not available in the provided online sources.
