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In a tragic turn of events that shook the city of Memphis, Tennessee, Marissa Rene Williams, a 27-year-old African American woman, was killed on March 2, 2008. Her life was cut short in a brutal mass shooting that claimed the lives of six people, an event that would come to be known as the Lester Street Massacre.

The horrific incident unfolded at a house on Lester Street, where an argument between Jessie L. Dotson and his brother, Cecil Dotson Jr., escalated into unimaginable violence. Je ...Read More
Victim Details

Marissa Williams

Female

Black / African American

Memphis

TN

2008-03-02

27

Marissa

Williams

01/01/2026