Jimmie Driskell, a 34-year-old Black man from Memphis, Tennessee, died on June 10, 2010, leaving behind a sudden silence that the city could only begin to name in the days that followed. In the brief public notices that marked his passing, the emphasis fell less on how it happened than on the fact that it did, and on the people who were left to carry the weight of it.
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Ford & Sons Funeral Home in Memphis, with a visitation scheduled for Friday, June 18, from 4:00 to 6:30 p.m. The obituary did not describe the circumstances surrounding his death, offering no public narrative of an incident, only the measured details of where the family would gather and who would receive condolences.
In that same notice, his family was named with care: a daughter, Jimeca Driskell; a son, Jimmy Driskell, Jr.; his mother, Eddie Dean Davis; three sisters, Toni Driskell, Samantha Driskell, and Stephanie Simmons; and a brother, Samuel Driskell, Jr., along with other relatives and friends. Online biographical listings that echo the dates of his life add little beyond confirming the timeline, reinforcing how, for many readers, the record of his passing remains sparse and unresolved in public view.
As for arrests or named suspects, the widely accessible online material connected to his death does not identify any, and no public-facing account in those sources outlines charges, court proceedings, or convictions tied to what happened to him. For anyone seeking official incident documentation beyond the obituary’s boundaries, the Memphis Police Department directs requests for reports through its public-information pathways and Central Records process, where incident/offense reports may be requested through the department rather than through memorial notices.
