On a cold evening in Memphis, Tennessee, the life of 25-year-old Cameron Stokes was tragically cut short. On February 7, 2016, Stokes was sitting in a car at the Hamlets Condominiums on Encino Cove when an unknown assailant opened fire, killing both him and another man in the vehicle. Emergency responders from the Memphis Fire Department arrived at the scene shortly before 8 p.m. to find both men deceased.
The shooting was part of a violent weekend in Memphis that saw four homicides.
The Stokes family was no stranger to such tragedy, as Cameron's 15-year-old sister, Cateria Stokes, had been killed in a drive-by shooting the previous April. In another devastating connection to violence, his brother, Carlos Stokes, had been arrested in connection with the murder of a 7-year-old girl, a crime believed to be related to gang activity and drugs.
In the wake of the double homicide on Super Bowl Sunday, police investigations led to the arrest of a suspect. A man was subsequently charged in connection with the shooting deaths of Cameron Stokes and the other victim, identified as 32-year-old El-Amin. The tragic death of Cameron Stokes underscored a period of escalating violence in the city, leaving a family and a community to grapple with the profound and repeated impact of loss.
