SHELBY COUNTY, Tennessee — UPDATE 9/10/2020 - (NEWS RELEASE) - A southeast Shelby County man was indicted Wednesday in connection with the shootings deaths of two women during an early-morning encounter earlier this year, said Shelby County Dist. Atty. Gen. Amy Weirich.
A grand jury indicted Darrin Walker, 24, on two counts of first-degree murder. He is being held without bond in the Shelby County Jail.
Investigators with the Shelby County Sheriff’s Office were called around 3 a.m. on Feb. 24 to Bethany Drive at Belmont Run Cove in southeast Shelby County where they found 25-year-old Destiny Wilkins in the street with multiple gunshot wounds.
She was able to tell investigators a man shot her and her friend, Nayeli ‘Courtney’ Love, 23, and that he drove off in Wilkins’ car with her injured friend still in the backseat. Wilkins died later at a hospital.
Around 9 a.m. that morning, deputies found her car, still running, parked about three miles west on Lake Valley Drive. Love was found in the backseat, dead from gunshot wounds.
Walker, who lived nearby on Gadwell Drive West, was developed as a suspect and was arrested March 3 after leaving his home.
The case is being handled by Chief Prosecutor Theresa McCusker and Felony Asst. Melissa Harris of the District Attorney’s Vertical Prosecution Team 1 which handles cases in General Sessions Division 7 and in Criminal Court Division 1.
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UPDATE 3/04/2020: 24-year-old Darrin Walker has been charged with two counts of First Degree Murder for the shooting deaths of 25-year-old Destiny Wilkins and 23-year-old Nayeli Bobbi Jean Bradford Esha Love.
The homicide happened on Monday, February 24 on Belmont Run Cove.
UPDATE: The Shelby County Sheriff’s Office has identified the victims as Destiny Wilkins, 25, and Nayeli Bobbi Jean Bradford Esha Love, 23.
UPDATED: Investigators now say two women are dead after a shooting in Southeast Shelby County early Monday morning.
The Shelby County Sheriff’s Office says the shooting happened in the 7700 block of Belmont Run Cove. One woman was taken to Regional One Medical Center, where she died from her injuries.
Deputies believed a second woman had been kidnapped by the unknown suspect in a 2008 black Impala. The Impala was found just after 10:00 a.m. Monday in the 6900 block of Lake Valley drive. Investigators say a woman was found dead at that scene.
The Shelby County Sheriff’s Office warns the suspect is still at large and considered armed and extremely dangerous. Contact law enforcement immediately if you have any information that may help investigators.