15-Year-Old Indicted in Murder Case

Nov. 4, 2021 – A Mississippi teen has been indicted on murder, robbery and other felony charges in the shooting death of an acquaintance earlier this year, said Shelby County Dist. Atty. Gen. Amy Weirich.

    Caleb Hamer, who was 14 at the time, was indicted on counts of first-degree felony murder, especially aggravated robbery, aggravated burglary, and theft under $1,000. He is being held at the Shelby County Jail East juvenile facility.

   The shooting occurred around 3 p.m. on April 11 this year in the 3200 block of Forest Brook Drive in the Fox Meadows area of Southwest Memphis. Witnesses said they heard a gunshot in the living room of the residence and that when they entered they saw Joseph Boose, 18, with a gunshot wound to the chest.

   They said he told them Hamer had shot him and that Hamer, who was still holding the pistol, acknowledged that that was correct. Boose was taken to a hospital where he later died.

   Investigators said Hamer also stole a pistol from the residence and used a debit card belonging to Boose before he was caught 10 days later in Horn Lake, Miss., by the U.S. Marshals Two Rivers Violent Fugitive Task Force.

   They said Hamer was taken into custody after he jumped from a second-floor window and threw a pistol on a rooftop.

   The case is being handled by Chief Prosecutor Theresa McCusker of the District Attorney’s Vertical Team 1 which prosecutors cases in General Sessions Division 7 and in Criminal Court Division 1.