Motorist Indicted in Whitehaven Shootings

Aug. 11, 2022 – A 22-year-old man captured on surveillance video shooting into another vehicle at an intersection in Whitehaven has been indicted in the death of a young man and the wounding of his aunt, said Shelby County Dist. Atty. Gen. Amy Weirich.

Defendant Jalen Hill was indicted on felony counts of first-degree murder, attempted first-degree murder involving serious bodily injury, and employment of a firearm in the commission of a dangerous felony.

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

The shootings occurred around 3 p.m. on Oct. 9, 2021, when Hill pulled up next to another vehicle at a stoplight at the busy intersection of Boeingshire Road and Shelby Drive just west of Memphis International Airport.

Video captured by a Real-Time Crime Center pole camera showed Hill leaning out of the driver’s seat and shooting into the car next to his. A passenger in that car, Donquez Driver, 21, was struck six times and died from his wounds.

His 59-year-old aunt, who was in the driver’s seat, was struck one in the back and has undergone multiple surgeries.

Hill was developed as a suspect and was arrested two days later.

The case is being handled by Felony Asst. Stacy McEndree of the District Attorney’s Vertical Team 6 which prosecutes cases in General Sessions Division 15 and in Criminal Court Division 10.