South Parkway shooting leaves teen dead, man injured

UPDATE: The Memphis Police Department has posted surveillance photos from Tuesday’s shooting at the Parkway Food Market at 743 South Parkway East.

MPD believes that the suspect was a Black male wearing a black hoodie, blue jeans and white flip flops (pictured left). The suspect fled with the woman wearing the black jacket and yellow pants in a black SUV.

The male wearing the black jacket and red jogging suit retrieved the weapon used by the victim and hid it inside his car, a silver four-door Chevrolet parked outside the location.

At this time no arrests have been made.

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MEMPHIS, Tenn. — A shooting in South Memphis left a teenager dead and a man injured on Tuesday, according to the Memphis Police Department.

Around 1:30 p.m., officers say they responded to a shooting at the Parkway Market convenience store on South Parkway. Two victims were found suffering from gunshot wounds.

The teen was taken to Regional One Hospital in critical condition where he later died.

The other male victim, identified as 65-year-old Phillip Martin, was taken to the hospital in non-critical condition. He was shot in the leg.

“I started running and I fell on the floor. I felt the shot hit me in the leg,” Martin said. “I always sit back and talk about how other people, innocent people done got shot just doing nothing, not involved in anything. But I never thought it would happen to me.”

Martin says he went to the convenience store to buy a soda for his neighbor.

“By the time we got up to the cash register to pay for it, a tall black slim guy walked through the door and just started shooting at a guy that was standing behind me,” Martin said. “And then the guy behind me started shooting back and that’s when I fell to the floor.”

Memphis Police say the suspect had previous issues with the intended victim. Witnesses say they saw the two arguing before the shooting happened.

“When I seen it finna pop off, I told my girl and my baby, ‘just come on.’ Because I knew something was getting ready to go on and I ain’t wanna be in that,” the witness said.

That witness came back an hour later to the crime scene.

According to the Memphis Data Hub, police have responded to 40 calls within a quarter-mile radius of the store since the start of the year.

And while Martin is thankful to be alive tonight, he’s angry that he can’t feel safe in his own neighborhood.

“Everybody is out here doing the same thing that I was doing really trying to watch yourself, trying to be in the right place at the right time,” he said. “Anywhere you go and everywhere you go now, it’s not the right time.”

Martin says the city needs to do better when it comes to getting these criminals off the streets and keeping them off the streets.

Meanwhile, police say the suspect walked away in dark jeans and a dark-colored hoodie.