Two young men have been charged with first-degree murder over a Halloween-night shooting in Collierville, Tennessee, that killed a 19-year-old Mississippi man, after the U.S. Marshals Service announced on Monday, November 9, that its fugitive task force had arrested the second suspect in Memphis following a two-day search.
The shooting happened on Saturday, October 31, 2026, in the 100 block of Harris Cove, a residential street in Collierville. Collierville Police Department officers responded at around 7:47 p.m. to a report of a shooting, and the victim — Nicholas Jones, 19, of Holly Springs, Mississippi — was taken to Regional One Health in Memphis. Collierville detectives investigated his death as a homicide, the Marshals Service said.
Police say the victim was targeted
Investigators say the suspects targeted a known victim, according to the Collierville Police Department's account of the case. Police have not stated a motive, and they have not said what, if any, relationship existed between Jones and the two men charged. No further details about the moments before the shooting had been released as of Monday's announcements.
A first arrest on November 2, then a murder warrant
The first suspect, an 18-year-old from Collierville, was taken into custody on Monday, November 2. The next day, November 3, an arrest warrant for first-degree murder was issued for Antoine Cunningham, 21, of Memphis, after Collierville detectives determined he was one of the suspects responsible for the crime, the Marshals Service said. The Collierville Police Department then asked the U.S. Marshals Service's Two Rivers Violent Fugitive Task Force for help in locating and apprehending him.
A two-day search ends in a surrender in Memphis
After a two-day search, on Thursday, November 5, the Marshals developed information that Cunningham was at a residence in the 3200 block of Cosmic Circle in Memphis. With the assistance of the Shelby County Sheriff's Fugitive Apprehension Team and elements of the Memphis Safe Task Force, Cunningham surrendered and was taken into custody, the Marshals Service said.
Both suspects have been arrested on first-degree murder charges and remanded on a $500,000 bond each. A charge is an allegation, not a conviction: both men are presumed innocent unless and until they are proven guilty in court.
Two towns, one case
Collierville is a town in Shelby County, east of Memphis, and Harris Cove is one of its residential streets — not a place associated with gun violence on a Halloween evening when families are out in neighbourhoods. Jones came from Holly Springs, in northern Mississippi, south of the Memphis area, and was taken after the shooting to Regional One Health, the Memphis hospital that serves as the region's trauma centre.
The case also shows how a suburban police investigation widened into a federal fugitive hunt: Collierville detectives identified their suspects, a county-city arrest followed on November 2, and when a second suspect remained at large, a first-degree murder warrant brought in the Marshals' Two Rivers task force — the federal unit that tracks violent fugitives across the Memphis region — together with Shelby County and Memphis task-force officers.
What happens next
Both men remain held on $500,000 bonds as the case moves into the Shelby County court process. Neither Monday's Marshals announcement nor the police account released the same day gave a first court date, and investigators said no further details were available at this time. Awaaz Punjab will report the first court appearances and any additional charges or arrests as officials release them.