Man Indicted in Parkway Village Homicide

March 3, 2022 – A 56-year-old man has been indicted on first-degree murder charges related to the shooting of an acquaintance during an argument last year outside a convenience store in the Parkway Village area, said Shelby County Dist. Atty. Gen. Amy Weirich.

Defendant Francisco Oliva is being held without bond in the Shelby County Jail.

The shooting occurred around 5 p.m. on Sept. 25, 2021, on a service station parking lot at South Perkins Road and Cottonwood Road where Oliva and 43-year-old acquaintance Juan Zavala-Delgado got into an argument involving longstanding issues, investigators said.

The victim was shot multiple times and was pronounced dead at the scene. Surveillance video from a nearby store shows the defendant shoot the victim, pause, and then shoot him again.

Oliva was arrested at a nearby restaurant a short time later.

The case is being handled by Chief Prosecutor Carrie Bush and Asst. Dist. Atty. Robert Steele of the District Attorney’s Vertical Team 4 which prosecutes cases in General Sessions Division 12 and in Criminal Court Division 4.