Irving Guy, 31, a Black male from Memphis, Tennessee, was killed on August 26, 2016, after gunfire ripped through the Wingood Manor Apartments in late morning. Police were called to the complex in the 3500 block just before 11 a.m., and what they found suggested the violence had unfolded fast and close—one victim down in the street, another gravely wounded.
Family members said Guy was discovered upstairs, shot in his side, collapsed on the floor.
In the confusion after the shots, relatives described a moment that felt ordinary right up until it wasn’t—he had gone there to meet someone, and then something went wrong. The other victim, identified by family as Joshua Stallworth, was first reported in critical condition and rushed to Regional Medical Center, but he later died as well. Investigators believed the shooter had already slipped away from the scene, and at the time of reporting there was no public description released of the suspect.
As word spread, the grief widened beyond the apartment complex. The station reported that the two men left behind seven children, a detail that turned the crime scene into something even heavier—two families suddenly forced to explain an absence that would never be temporary.
The same report noted that Guy had previously faced serious criminal charges, including domestic assault, attempted second-degree murder, and kidnapping—history that added an uneasy layer to the questions hanging over the case, without explaining who fired the shots that day or why. In the publicly available accounts reviewed here, no arrests, charges, trials, or convictions connected to his killing were reported.
