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WREG News Channel October 30, 2024: Mother says son shot 40 times; accused killer charged.
WREG3 CBS News, Memphis, TN local
written by Jessica Knox
Wednesday October 30, 2024
MEMPHIS, Tennessee — A mother is finally getting some closure after her son’s brutal murder.
When WREG first brought you this story in September, all we could tell you was someone was pronounced dead on Chelsea Ave.
Now, we know the victim is DeMarcus Wilbourn and his accused killer is facing a serious charge.
“You gunned down my child for no reason,” said Connie Matthews, Wilbourn’s mother.
Steffon Boatwright is charged with allegedly killing the 35-year-old last September on Chelsea Avenue in North Memphis
“He shot DeMarcus because he seen him break into his daddy’s house and he know DeMarcus was going to tell him,” Matthews said.
She says Boatwright chased her son down Chelsea Avenue, shooting over 40 times. Police say they found a trail of blood about a football field long.
“He shot him all parts of his body. His mouth, his jaw, his eye — he shot his eyes out, and he shot him in the head,” she said.
Wilborn leaves behind his mother and four siblings.
“I miss my brother. It hurts everyday,” said Darnecia Wilbourn Collins. “He just always kept a smile on his face. He would help anybody.”
Boatwright is facing one charge of first-degree murder. He was indicted by a grand jury earlier this month.
“I was mad. I was very very very mad. I am still angry about what he did. Yes, I am going to be there at every court date,” Matthews said.
He is scheduled to be back in court for a report date in December.
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Fox13 News, Memphis, TN local
written by Staff
September 11, 2024
MEMPHIS, Tenn. - A trail of blood and bullets from a man sanitation workers found dead on the driveway helped investigators track down and arrest a man for the murder, police say.
Steffon Boatwright, 32, was charged with first-degree murder.
Sanitation workers found a man, Demarcus Wilbourn, laying on a driveway with gunshot wounds on the 800 block of Chelsea Avenue on Sept. 9.
Memphis Fire Dept. officials pronounced the man dead at the scene, in North Memphis.
Officers arrived about 7 a.m. and tracked a bloody trail from the location to the front steps of a home about 100 yards away on Pearce Street.
Multiple .40 caliber bullets and 10-mm shell casings were found on the trail of blood, police said.
Video-surveillance footage from a near business showed police that a man wearing the same clothes as Wilbourn was walking in the area for several hours that morning before a man approached him about 4 a.m.
Several flashes police believe were from a gunfire were on the video, police said, and the unknown man ran away toward 952 Pearce Street.
Investigators learned that a man at the residence had left a relative, Wilbourn, outside his home on the porch the prior evening.
When the man returned in the morning he found the backdoor to the house broken, the house ransacked and two of his handguns missing.
He tried and failed multiple times to make contact with Boatwright, which he said was unusual.
Later that day about 6:30 p.m., police found Boatwright walking in the area, and discovered two firearms on him, a .40 caliber Berretta and a 10 mm Glock, a court document reads.
Boatwright told police he'd slept in the woods overnight. He was taken to the homicide office and after being interviewed said he wanted a lawyer.
He told police, "I mean that's common sense, yeah, I did it. I mean it ain't nothing really to say about that. It's just the reason why I did it," the report said.
No bond information was made available.
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