Teen Indicted in Drive-Up Shooting

March 19, 2021 – A Memphis teen was indicted Thursday in the roadway shooting death of a man last summer at a southwest Memphis intersection, said Shelby County Dist. Atty. Gen. Amy Weirich.

Anthony Green, 19, was indicted on first-degree murder, two counts of attempted first-degree murder, and two counts of employment of a firearm in the commission of a dangerous felony.

Witnesses said that on the afternoon of June 19 last year two vehicles were stopped at Selby Drive and Neely Road when a third vehicle pulled up and the driver began shooting.

A passenger in one vehicle, Octavious Atkins, 27, was struck multiple times and was pronounced dead at the scene. A 49-year-old man who was the driver of the third vehicle was struck in the arm by a gunshot and was taken to a hospital.

The shooter’s vehicle, a white Mercedes SUV, was found burning behind a nearby building, but the driver was not located.

Green was developed as a suspect, and was arrested on a murder warrant on Sept. 26 when a Mississippi Highway Patrolman pulled over a vehicle he was traveling in on Interstate 10 near Gulfport.

The case is being handled by Chief Prosecutor Stephanie Johnson of the District Attorney’s Vertical Team 2 which handles cases in General Sessions Division 9 and Criminal Court Division 2.