Everett Jones

Everett Jones, a 37-year-old Black man, was found shot on the evening of November 24, 2010, at a residence on Beauchamp Drive in Memphis, not far from Memphis International Airport. The call came in around 7:20 p.m., and when authorities arrived, Jones was already beyond help, pronounced dead at the scene.

In the first, confused hours after the discovery, investigators reportedly wrestled with what they were looking at—questioning whether the gunshot was self-inflicted before concludin ...