SE Shelby Man Indicted in Women’s Deaths

Sept. 10, 2020 – A southeast Shelby County man was indicted Wednesday in connection with the shootings deaths of two women during an early-morning encounter earlier this year, said Shelby County Dist. Atty. Gen. Amy Weirich.

A grand jury indicted Darrin Walker, 24, on two counts of first-degree murder. He is being held without bond in the Shelby County Jail.

Investigators with the Shelby County Sheriff’s Office were called around 3 a.m. on Feb. 24 to Bethany Drive at Belmont Run Cove in southeast Shelby County where they found 25-year-old Destiny Wilkins in the street with multiple gunshot wounds.

She was able to tell investigators a man shot her and her friend, Nayeli ‘Courtney’ Love, 23, and that he drove off in Wilkins’ car with her injured friend still in the backseat. Wilkins died later at a hospital.

Around 9 a.m. that morning, deputies found her car, still running, parked about three miles west on Lake Valley Drive. Love was found in the backseat, dead from gunshot wounds.

Walker, who lived nearby on Gadwell Drive West, was developed as a suspect and was arrested March 3 after leaving his home.

The case is being handled by Chief Prosecutor Theresa McCusker and Felony Asst. Melissa Harris of the District Attorney’s Vertical Prosecution Team 1 which handles cases in General Sessions Division 7 and in Criminal Court Division 1.