Shelby County District Attorney: Man Indicted In Whitehaven Motel Murder

Press release from the Shelby County District Attorney:

January 21, 2022

     Jan. 21, 2022 – A Memphis man was indicted Thursday in the shooting death of a Horn Lake man last year in a Whitehaven motel, said Shelby County Dist. Atty. Gen. Amy Weirich. 

    A grand jury indicted Fountain Holley, aka Fontaine Holley, on a count of second-degree murder. He is being held on $500,000 bond. 

    The incident occurred shortly after 7 p.m. on Sept. 12 last year at a motel on East Shelby Drive just west of Interstate 55.

   Police were called to the Skyline Inn where they found the window of a guest room shattered and the body of 23-year-old Jordon Briggs on the floor inside. He had a gunshot wound to the chest and was pronounced dead at the scene. 

   Holley, 33, was developed as a suspect and was taken into custody 10 days later. 

   The case is being handled by Asst. Dist. Atty. Jeff Jones of the District Attorney’s Special Prosecution Unit 8 which seeks maximum sentencing for repeat felony offenders. 

     Jan. 21, 2022 – A Memphis man was indicted Thursday in the shooting death of a Horn Lake man last year in a Whitehaven motel, said Shelby County Dist. Atty. Gen. Amy Weirich. 

    A grand jury indicted Fountain Holley, aka Fontaine Holley, on a count of second-degree murder. He is being held on $500,000 bond. 

    The incident occurred shortly after 7 p.m. on Sept. 12 last year at a motel on East Shelby Drive just west of Interstate 55.

   Police were called to the Skyline Inn where they found the window of a guest room shattered and the body of 23-year-old Jordon Briggs on the floor inside. He had a gunshot wound to the chest and was pronounced dead at the scene. 

   Holley, 33, was developed as a suspect and was taken into custody 10 days later. 

   The case is being handled by Asst. Dist. Atty. Jeff Jones of the District Attorney’s Special Prosecution Unit 8 which seeks maximum sentencing for repeat felony offenders. 

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