MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — A special prosecutor has been appointed to handle the investigation into the fatal shooting of a man at a Tennessee supermarket.
Nashville-area district attorney Glenn Funk has been selected to investigate the killing of Alvin Motley at a Kroger gas station in Memphis, Shelby County district attorney Amy Weirich said Monday. Police said a security guard at the supermarket fatally shot Motley during an argument.
Weirich said last week that she recused herself from the probe because an investigator in her office had an off-duty job with the security company involved in the case, and the investigator might be a witness in the prosecution.
Security guard Gregory Livingston has been charged with second-degree murder. Police said Livingston, who is white, shot Motley, who was Black, as the men argued about the volume of music coming from Motley’s car on Aug. 7.
Livingston’s lawyer, Leslie Ballin, told The Commercial Appeal that race did not factor into the shooting and the facts of the case “go way beyond loud music being an issue.”