MEMPHIS, Tenn. — Family members of the man shot and killed during a fight on Beale Street last year will have to wait a little longer to learn the convicted shooter’s fate.
Quaverre Rogers was scheduled to be sentenced on Friday morning, but the case was reset. He was found guilty in the killing of Damein Hawkins Sr.
“There is a giant hole in my heart for my husband,” said Damein’s wife, Charloris Isabel-Hawkins.
Isabel-Hawkins is undergoing a pain that no one wants to endure. The man she called her “gentle giant,” was killed on Beale Street one year ago. She says they had just celebrated 16 years of marriage.
“This has been a journey I wouldn’t wish on anyone,” she said.
According to the Shelby County Criminal Justice System Portal, Rogers was found guilty of voluntary manslaughter and he was initially charged with second-degree murder.
“Even though a jury of his peers said it was manslaughter, he took a life. He took a life,” said the victim’s wife.
Hawkins says her husband was killed while trying to break up a fight in front of the now-closed Jerry Lee Lewis Café and Honkey Tonk.
“He stood for if you see something that’s not right to correct it, and that’s what he was trying to do. He saw a fight that wasn’t right,” said Hawkins.
She says he died that night.
“When I got to Regional One, the trauma surgeon told me that there was too much damage to his heart and that he passed,” she said.
Rogers was scheduled to be sentenced Friday morning, but his case was reset.
Hawkins says she is fully prepared to stand before her husband’s convicted killer and tell him about the man she loved. The man, she says, was a devoted father, brother, son, and grandfather.
Damein Hawkins and family (Photos provided by Charloris Isabel-Hawkins) 
Damein Hawkins and Charloris Isabel-Hawkins (Photo provided by Charloris Isabel-Hawkins) 
Damein Hawkins and family (Photos provided by Charloris Isabel-Hawkins) 
Damein Hawkins and family (Photos provided by Charloris Isabel-Hawkins) 
Damein Hawkins and family (Photos provided by Charloris Isabel-Hawkins) 
Damein Hawkins and family (Photos provided by Charloris Isabel-Hawkins)
“That’s a lot of lives that he has impacted with his terrible and deadly decision,” said Hawkins.
Hawkins says even though she may never truly heal from the death of her “gentle giant,” she will continue moving forward.
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“I will never get over it, but I will get to the other side of it,” she said. “I have to keep going.”
Rogers is due back in court on May 16.
WREG learned the case was reset after it was announced that one of the attorneys over the case died overnight. The Shelby County Public Defender’s Office identified the attorney as Michael Johnson, who was working for the defense.
