Shelby County District Attorney: Woman Indicted In Uncle's Shooting Death

Memphis TN

09 March, 2022

2:20 PM

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Press release from the Shelby County District Attorney: March 8, 2022 March 8, 2022 – A 51-year-old woman has been indicted in the early-morning shooting death of her uncle in 2020 following a family Christmas party at his Frayser home, said Shelby County Dist. Atty. Gen. Amy Weirich. A grand jury indicted Jessie Ann Brown on a count of second-degree murder. She is being held on $500,000 bond. The incident occurred around 3 a.m. on Dec. 20, 2020, at the home of Quint Crowder in the 1500 block of Paullus Drive. Investigators said Brown began pounding on a bedroom and told Crowder's wife that she had killed him. They walked down the hall and into the den where Crowder, 58, was on the floor, bleeding from a gunshot wound to the head. He was taken to a hospital where he died later that day. The case is being handled by Asst. Dist. Atty. Brad Reasonover of the District Attorney's Vertical Team 3 which prosecutes cases in General Sessions Division 11 and in Criminal Court Division 3. March 8, 2022 – A 51-year-old woman has been indicted in the early-morning shooting death of her uncle in 2020 following a family Christmas party at his Frayser home, said Shelby County Dist. Atty. Gen. Amy Weirich. A grand jury indicted Jessie Ann Brown on a count of second-degree murder. She is being held on $500,000 bond. The incident occurred around 3 a.m. on Dec. 20, 2020, at the home of Quint Crowder in the 1500 block of Paullus Drive. Investigators said Brown began pounding on a bedroom and told Crowder's wife that she had killed him. They walked down the hall and into the den where Crowder, 58, was on the floor, bleeding from a gunshot wound to the head. He was taken to a hospital where he died later that day. The case is being handled by Asst. Dist. Atty. Brad Reasonover of the District Attorney's Vertical Team 3 which prosecutes cases in General Sessions Division 11 and in Criminal Court Division 3. This press release was produced by the Shelby County District Attorney. The views expressed here are the author's own.