MEMPHIS, Tenn. — Police are looking for two men who fired round after round at a family responding to an ad on Craigslist.
A man told police he and his girlfriend took his mother to buy a car she saw on the website.
The seller told them to meet him at a home on Quintell around 11 Tuesday morning.
The seller reportedly said he would knock off $1,500, and claimed he was a cop to make the family feel safer.
The family told police while waiting for the seller to show up, they saw a car continuously circling the block with a towel dangling in the back to cover the license plate.
“It’s a big lot. It’s on the corner. You can’t see nobody coming from the back,” said Dwayne Hampton who lives in the home.
Hampton wasn’t home when police said two men came from his backyard and demanded the family’s money.
The pair opened fire as the family put the car in reverse hitting a brick column.
“They destroyed the column there, backed up and [the driver] was shot in the arm,” said Hampton.
The man drove his family to Walgreen’s on Stage Road and called police.
He was taken to the hospital, but is expected to be okay.
He was shot in the shoulder.
Hampton said he can’t figure out why his home was the center of a crime scene.
He said another family showed up to his house the day before too.
“Somebody came yesterday asking about a car, and my wife just threw the door shut. She told them there was no car for sale, and they kind of lingered, and she called police,” said Hampton. “I feel very uneasy. Now, I got to look over my shoulder when I come out to the garage or driveway.”
WREG reached out to the family responding to the Craigslist ad, but never heard back.
Police are still putting the pieces together, but Hampton is adamant his family had nothing to do with the crime.
