Photo: Edmond Knowles/Shelby County Sheriff’s Department
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — An Arkansas man has been charged with killing a Tennessee man who was selling a car, then stealing the vehicle.
Edmond Knowles, 21, has been indicted on charges including first-degree murder, robbery and kidnapping in the February death of 20-year-old Arnold Javier Reyes, the Shelby County District Attorney’s Office said Wednesday.
Investigators said Knowles, of Blytheville, went to an auto parts store in Memphis to inquire about a Ford Mustang that Reyes was selling.
Reyes allowed Knowles to test drive the car, and he accompanied Knowles in the passenger seat, prosecutors said. Residents of a neighborhood later reported a shooting and said they saw someone drive away in the Mustang.
Police found Reyes on the ground with his ankles taped and a gunshot wound to the head, prosecutors said. He died at a hospital.
Knowles was arrested about a week later. Online court records do not show if he has a lawyer.