In the winter of 2013, the life of Walter McNeal Marlow, a 28-year-old man from Memphis, Tennessee, was tragically cut short. On the afternoon of Friday, February 1st, police responded to a shooting at 101 West Mallory. There, they found Marlow suffering from a gunshot wound. He was rushed to the Regional Medical Center, but his injuries proved to be fatal, and he was pronounced dead.
Initial investigations into the incident revealed a grim scenario.
It was determined that Marlow had been shot during the course of a robbery. The Memphis Police Department's homicide investigators began to piece together the events of that fatal afternoon, seeking any information that could lead them to the person or people responsible for this violent act. In the immediate aftermath, authorities reached out to the community for assistance, hoping that someone would come forward with information that could help them solve the murder.
Despite the initial efforts of law enforcement, the case of Walter Marlow's death grew cold. Information regarding any potential suspects or arrests in the years that followed has not been publicly available. The promising life of a young man, who had attended Carver High School and was an employee at a local Zaxby's restaurant, was extinguished in a senseless act of violence that, according to available information, remains an unsolved homicide. His family and friends were left to mourn a life taken too soon, with the perpetrators never having been brought to justice.