On the late afternoon of Friday, August 22, 2025, 18-year-old Antonio Sykes, a Black/African American male, was found inside a vehicle in a Cordova parking lot near Berryhill Road and Chimneyrock Boulevard with gunshot wounds. Paramedics pronounced him dead at the scene, and the location was treated as the scene of a homicide.

The Shelby County Sheriff’s Office Violent Crimes Unit identified 18-year-old Trenton Dillon Harris as a primary suspect and obtained a first-degree murder arrest warrant. Investigators said Harris had fled the state; the U.S. Marshals fugitive task force located him in Atlanta, Georgia, and he was taken into custody on Thursday, August 28, 2025, pending extradition back to Shelby County. Upon return to Tennessee he was indicted on first-degree murder and employing a firearm with intent to commit a felony, with bond set at $1 million.

On October 14, 2025, the sheriff’s office announced the arrest of a second suspect, 18-year-old Antwain Carrick, on charges of first-degree murder and unlawful use of a firearm in connection with Sykes’s death. Anyone with information about Antonio Sykes or the shooting is asked to come forward.