Man found shot to death in car in South Memphis driveway

Renee Hill stood on a South Memphis street Wednesday morning sobbing as she looked at the bullet-riddled car with her daughter's father's body inside.

"Tell me how am I going to tell my daughter her daddy gone?" Hill asked as family and friends hugged her. "He gone. Lord, help us."

Family members identified the man killed as 35-year-old Marlon Elliott. Police said Elliott was shot to death when a gunman ran up and opened fire on his black Infiniti that was parked in the driveway of a home in the 200 block of Essex Avenue.

When the shooting started, a woman Elliott was dating, jumped out of the car and ran into the home, neighbors said. The woman was not injured by gunfire and was taken by Memphis police to the homicide office for questioning.

The shooting occurred shortly after 7 a.m., waking up the neighborhood on Essex Avenue and Arkansas, near Carver High School. Neighbors stood on the sidewalk outside of the crime scene tape and watched as an officer put down more than a dozen yellow markers near the bullet casings littering the ground.

"We hear gunshots all the time, so it really is nothing new. I get up and see if everything okay and keep going," said neighbor Jasmine Rankin, who lives two houses down from where the shooting occurred.

Memphis police spokesman Louis Brownlee said the suspect was described as a man in all black.

"No one is in custody at this time. This is an ongoing investigation," Brownlee said.