This case started on the night of October 3, 1974 at about 10:30 p.m. in Memphis, TN, Edward Garner a young teenager of about 17 or 18 years old broke into a house with the intention of committing a burglary, shortly after a neighbored next door called the police when she heard glass breaking next door, two police officers answered the called Elton Hymon and Leslie Wright, after arriving to the scene Hymon went to check the back of the house when he suddenly saw Edward Garner running across the backyard with the intention of jumping the fence and fleeing from the police, with the help of Hymon’s flashlight Hymon knew that the suspect was just a teenager and he could see that Garner had no weapons or presented any significant threat towards