A 19-year-old Cordova man was indicted Feb. 26 on first-degree murder charges for a shooting in Bartlett, according to Shelby County District Attorney General Amy Weirich.
The indictment was for the death of an acquaintance, 17-year-old Jaylon Cohen, who was shot multiple times around 11:30 p.m. July 3, 2018, in the parking lot of Taco Bell at U.S. 70 and Appling Road in Bartlett.
Investigators said defendant Kentrell Spight had taunted Cohen earlier via social media messages.
A grand jury also indicted Spight on the felony charge of employment of a firearm in the commission of a dangerous felony.
The case is being handled by the DA’s Crime Strategies Prosecution Unit, which incorporates and expands the work of the Multi-Agency Gang Unit, the Organized Crime Unit, Project Safe Neighborhood/Gundone, GunStat, the Safe Streets Task Force and the Violent Crime Unit.
Spight was also indicted in November in a separate murder case that occurred in February 2018. It involved the shooting death and the especially aggravated robbery of Jereme Jones and Devonte Taylor. Three other defendants also are charged in that case.
Jones and Taylor, both 19, were found dead in a car in Fletcher Creek Park on Dexter Road in Cordova.
Spight is being held on $4 million bond in the Shelby County Jail.
