MEMPHIS, Tenn. — Two people are now in jail after Memphis Police said they shot and killed a man in March over an apparent carjacking attempt in Whitehaven.
Jamar Tanner and Christopher Miller were both arrested Thursday by the Cleveland, Mississippi, Police Department, and charged with first degree murder, especially aggravated robbery and carjacking.
At 5:41 pm on March 15, officers responded to a shooting in the 4300 block of Faronia Square. A shooting victim was located in critical condition, but Memphis Police later told ABC24 the victim died at the hospital.
MPD said the incident was a carjacking.
A witness told investigators that as she was walking from her car to her apartment, she heard the victim yell at her, “Get back in your car!” The witness said that she saw Carter standing by his car, being robbed at gunpoint by two masked suspects, who shot him and then left in his car.
The victim's car was later found crashed in Clarksville, Mississippi.
Surveillance video showed the suspects being dropped off on Faronia Square by a white Honda Accord, which, through the investigation, was located in Cleveland, Mississippi.
An investigator with the Cleveland Police Department recognized the suspect in the video from previous encounters as Jamar Tanner. And the victim's wrecked car was found only a few hundred feet from Tanner’s address.
Memphis Police said Tanner was extradited to Shelby County, while Miller is currently awaiting extradition in the Bolivar County, Mississippi, Jail.
The case was also given to federal prosecutors, where both could face federal carjacking charges for several unrelated carjackings across multiple states.