Frayser Man Indicted in Robbery-Murder Case

Aug. 3, 2022 – A Frayser man was indicted Tuesday on multiple felony counts stemming from the killing of one man and critical wounding of another in a robbery last year, said Shelby County Dist. Atty. Gen. Amy Weirich.

William Demarcus Greene, 34, was indicted on first-degree murder in the perpetration of a felony, attempted first-degree murder involving serious bodily injury, two counts of especially aggravated robbery, employment of a firearm in the commission of a dangerous felony, and convicted felon in possession of a handgun.

He is being held without bond in the Shelby County Jail.

The incident occurred around 11:30 p.m. on Dec. 5, 2021, at North Trezevant Street and Capewood Drive in Frayser where police found two wounded men in the roadway.

Jorge Nieto Maldonado, 24, of Mexico, was shot at least nine times and was pronounced dead at a hospital. Another man, 25, of Memphis also was shot multiple times, but survived his wounds.

Investigators said the two men were at a motel on Summer Avenue earlier that evening and had planned to sell some marijuana to someone they had met there. They followed the man, later identified as Greene, to the Frayser neighborhood where several other men helped Green rob them of a pistol, marijuana, and car keys.

Greene was identified as the one who shot them as they lay in the street.

He was developed as a suspect and was arrested on March 15 by the U.S. Marshals Two Rivers Violent Fugitive Task Force and by the Shelby County Sheriff’s Office Fugitive Apprehension Team.

The case is being handled by Asst. Dist. Atty. Sam Winnig of the District Attorney’s Special Prosecution Unit 8 which seeks maximum sentencing for repeat felony offenders.