On a Sunday night in Memphis, Tennessee, the life of Marcos Hernandez was tragically cut short. It was April 24, 2011, at approximately 9:44 p.m., when the sound of gunfire echoed through the parking lot of the Willow Creek Apartments located at 2499 Ketchum. Responding to a disturbance call, officers from the Airways Station arrived to a grim scene. They discovered 47-year-old Marcos Hernandez lying unresponsive on the ground, the victim of a fatal shooting. Paramedics with the Memphis Fire Department were summoned, but it was too late; Mr. Hernandez was pronounced dead at the scene.
The initial investigation by the Memphis Police Department's Homicide Bureau relied on the accounts of those who witnessed the violent act. People at the apartment complex reported seeing two unidentified Black males shooting at Hernandez before fleeing the area. Beyond this brief description, the identities of the shooters remained a mystery, leaving a community shaken and a family grieving. In the days that followed, an obituary was published, marking the passing of Marcos Hernandez, who was remembered as being 46 years old at the time of his death.
The case of Marcos Hernandez's murder was turned over to the Homicide Unit for a thorough investigation. In the years since his death, authorities have continued to seek information from the public to help solve this homicide. The motive for the shooting and the circumstances that led to Marcos Hernandez being in the parking lot that night have not been publicly released. With no arrests made and the suspects still at large, the quest for justice for Marcos Hernandez and his loved ones continues.
