Cold Case Investigators File Murder Charges

  Nov. 24, 2021 – A 19-year-old man who is serving a seven-year prison sentence for aggravated robbery now has been charged in a 2017 home-invasion homicide that occurred when he was 15 years old, said Shelby County Dist. Atty. Gen. Amy Weirich.

    Detectives with the MPD Homicide Cold Case Unit charged Dallas Perkins with first-degree murder in the death of 68-year-old Robert Wong who was found shot to death on Nov. 23, 2017, at his home in the 4100 block of Cochese Drive in Parkway Village.

    Wong, who was being treated for cancer, was found unresponsive near the living room with a gunshot wound to the left shoulder. The side doors were unlocked, keys were missing, and the family Honda Odyssey van was gone.

    In 2019 Perkins pled guilty in the holdup of a pizza delivery driver that occurred on Oct. 28, 2018, in the 6300 block of Hunters Place in Cordova. Perkins and two other men took the driver’s white Dodge Charger, $20 and two pizzas.

    The following day, a Cordova woman reported the burglary of her home where a white Dodge Charger used. Perkins was arrested later after police spotted him and another teen getting into the vehicle in a Parkway Village neighborhood.

     Perkins pled guilty in the two incidents to aggravated robbery, aggravated burglary, theft of property over $1,000, and intentionally evading arrest in an automobile. He was sentenced to 7.2 years which he is serving at Riverbend Maximum Security Institution in Nashville.

    New evidence and witness interviews now have led cold-case detectives to Perkins involvement in the murder of Robert Wong.

    Since Perkins was 15 at the time of the murder, his initial proceedings will be in Juvenile Court.

    The case is being handled by Chief Prosecutor Paul Hagerman of the District Attorney’s Crime Strategies & Narcotics Prosecution Unit (CSNPU) which prosecuted cases in General Sessions Division 8 and in Criminal Court Division 6.

    CSNPU cases involve gang members and violent crimes, including homicides, aggravated robberies, aggravated assaults, kidnappings, rapes, and narcotics trafficking.