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Guard Gets 30 Years in Coworker Killing
Richard Lewis pleaded guilty to second-degree murder for killing fellow security guard James Earl Redmon at the Main Event in Cordova in July 2024. Court records list a 30-year sentence, effective Nov. 2.
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The plea is the conviction, and 30 years is the judgment that replaced a first-degree murder charge. An argument over a metal detector is not a defense that survived into this plea. James Earl Redmon was killed at work, and this is the sentence for that.
Richard Lewis pleaded guilty to second-degree murder for shooting James Earl Redmon, another security guard, at the Main Event on Appling Farms Parkway in Cordova. Shelby County Criminal Court records list a 30-year sentence in the Tennessee Department of Correction, effective Nov. 2.
The shooting was the night of July 22, 2024. The two men had known each other for years. Officers found Redmon dead at the venue. They had argued over whether visitors had to pass a metal detector. A witness told investigators that Lewis warned Redmon not to come closer, then fired. An affidavit says Lewis told his manager that Redmon came at him and he had to do it.
He was charged at first with first-degree murder. A grand jury indicted him on Nov. 7, 2024, and he was held on a $15 million bond. The plea is to the lesser offense. Shelby County District Attorney Steve Mulroy said Redmon went to work that evening and should have made it home.
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