Teen Indicted in Riverview Park Homicide

May 12, 2022 – A South Memphis teen was indicted Tuesday in the fatal late-night shooting last year of another teen during a fight outside of the Riverview Park Community Center, said Shelby County Dist. Atty. Gen. Amy Weirich.

A grand jury indicted Javon Lee White, now 17, on a count of second-degree murder. He was transferred from Juvenile Court and is being held at the Shelby County Jail East.

The incident occurred on Aug. 31, 2021, as White and several other youths were leaving the community center gym in the 1800 block of Kansas Street where White and 17-year-old Andre Smith had been in an argument.

Once outside, witnesses said Smith knocked White to the ground and that White came up shooting. Smith, who was struck in the abdomen, was taken to a hospital where he later was pronounced dead.

The case is being handled by Chief Prosecutor Kirby May of the District Attorney’s Vertical Team 5 which prosecutes cases in General Sessions Division 13 and in Criminal Court Division 9.