Gunman ID’d in Video Indicted in Woman’s Death

     Sept. 22, 2021 – A 21-year-old man was indicted Tuesday in the shooting death of a woman whose body was found this summer in a motel room on Jackson Avenue, said Shelby County Dist. Atty. Gen. Amy Weirich.

    A grand jury indicted Alexander Derrick on a count of first-degree murder. He is being held without bond.

   Investigators said the shooting occurred around 11:45 p.m. on June 11 this year at The Deluxe Inn at 3773 Jackson near Chelsea Avenue. Police received a call several hours later and found Monica Boone, 42, in a room, dead from a gunshot wound.

   She was a mother of six who had been staying at the motel temporarily.

   Derrick, who had a dispute with another motel guest earlier, was developed as a suspect through an anonymous tip to CrimeStoppers. When police showed Derrick’s mother a surveillance photo of the shooter, she identified him as her son.

   The tipster received a $2,000 reward, the first such amount given by CrimeStoppers which announced in June it was doubling its top reward for tips leading to arrests in homicide cases.

   The case is being handled by Asst. Dist. Atty. Forrest Edwards of the District Attorney’s Vertical Team 3 which prosecutes cases in General Sessions Division 11 and in Criminal Court Division 3.