Ex-Boyfriend Indicted in Mother’s Death; Left Dying Victim at Hospital ER Entrance

Aug. 10, 2022 – A man identified as the person who dropped off his critically wounded ex-girlfriend at a hospital emergency room last summer and drove away with their baby son in the car was indicted Tuesday in her death, said Shelby County Dist. Atty. Gen. Amy Weirich.

A grand jury indicted Barry Medlock, 27, on counts of second-degree murder and convicted felon in possession of a firearm. He is being held in the Shelby County Jail.

An investigation showed that shortly before 3 p.m. on June 27, 2021, a silver car pulled up the emergency room of Regional One Health on Jefferson at North Dunlap where the driver dropped 23-year-old Marika Clark.

She had been shot in the neck and the legs and died in the hospital a short time later. Surveillance footage led investigators to Medlock, the victim’s former boyfriend and father of their 7-month-old son. Medlock was arrested four days later.

The case is being handled by Asst. Dist. Atty. Justin Prescott of the District Attorney’s Domestic Violence Unit which prosecutes cases of domestic assault and homicide involving intimate partners.