A disturbance call to a barber shop in Martin, Tennessee, ended with a fatal shooting on April 22, 2023. Terry Wilson Jr., a 39-year-old Black man, was shot at about 5:17 p.m. after an altercation inside Haircuts R Us Family Barber Shop at 406 North Lindell Street. Wilson moved behind the neighboring Carl Perkins Center office building after being shot and was pronounced dead at the scene from a single gunshot wound; an autopsy was ordered.

The shop owner, 44-year-old Mantaring Okie Woolridge, told police Wilson had been beating on a trash can and throwing trash and that he fired his weapon in self-defense. Investigators with the Martin Police Department’s Criminal Investigations Division concluded Wilson was unarmed. Woolridge placed the 911 call and was arrested three days later, on April 25, 2023, and charged with second-degree murder; bond was set at $100,000 and a preliminary hearing was scheduled for May 2023.

If anyone was in or near the barber shop that afternoon or has information about the altercation, please come forward to help clarify what happened.