A woman in Memphis, Tennessee, was shot multiple times in the legs while trying to recover her daughter’s stolen 2011 Hyundai Sonata at a shopping center parking lot, and a 23‑year‑old man, Marquis Byers, has been charged with aggravated assault in the incident.
What happened at the scene
On Wednesday, the woman was driving near the Charlestowne Shops shopping center on Mount Moriah Road Extension when she spotted her daughter’s stolen Hyundai Sonata in the parking lot. She parked her own car to block the Sonata, got inside the Hyundai, and was looking down to open the hood when she heard several gunshots and realized she had been shot in both legs.
She then saw two men getting into a nearby black BMW and called 911; responding Memphis officers applied tourniquets to her legs and took her to a hospital, where she was treated in non‑critical condition.
Suspect and arrest
Surveillance footage showed a man in dark clothing, identified as Marquis Byers, exiting the BMW, approaching the driver’s side of the Sonata, and firing several shots into the car, striking the woman in the legs. A woman from the BMW later confronted Byers, another man picked up the gun he allegedly dropped, and the two men left while the woman remained to help the victim.
The black BMW was traced to Byers and two associates, who were not charged as of Thursday; Byers was arrested, booked into the Shelby County Jail on a $125,000 bond, and appeared in court, though the date of his next hearing has not been clearly specified.
