Cedric R. Singleton, a 39-year-old African American man from Memphis, Tennessee, was killed on April 18, 2008, a death recorded as a homicide tied to the area of 6800 Watergrove Drive in Memphis.
In the records that have surfaced publicly, the case is logged simply and starkly: a murder, with the cause left unknown in the publicly displayed entry, and no narrative explaining what led to the killing or how it unfolded.
What is clear is that the Memphis Police Department is listed as the investigating agency and the case status remains unsolved.
No suspect is identified in the public database entry, and there are no arrests listed in connection with his death. Cedric’s name also appears among the victims highlighted in a Washington Post project examining killings that did not result in an arrest, underscoring that—at least within the data compiled for that reporting—his case remained without someone taken into custody.
Outside the sparse investigative details, the public remembrance paints the fuller outline of who he was before the violence narrowed his story to a case file: a certified pharmacy technician who graduated from G.W. Carver and pursued higher education, with funeral services held in Memphis days after his death. In messages left in remembrance over the years, loved ones wrote about the shock of losing him, the ache of unanswered questions, and the lingering hope for closure that never seemed to arrive.
