U.S. Marshals and Law Enforcement Partners Capture First-Degree Murder Suspect Wanted for 2023 Beating Death

Memphis, TN – On July 31, 2024, the U.S. Marshals Service (USMS), Memphis Police Department (MPD), and Shelby County Sheriff’s Office Fugitive Teams captured Alfred Draper, 31, of Memphis, who was wanted for a murder where a man was beaten with a pole and left in a field last year.

On October 11th, 2023, MPD responded to the 1600 block of Rayburn Street in South Memphis. Officers arrived and found Shanqualus Morgan, 46, unresponsive in a grassy field. Morgan was transported to Regional One in critical condition and died days later from head trauma.

A few days later, MPD detectives obtained an arrest warrant charging Draper with first degree murder. The case was later adopted for a fugitive investigation by the USMS Two Rivers Violent Fugitive Task Force in Memphis.

Today, U.S. Marshals, MPD, and sheriff’s deputies found Draper inside a vehicle behind a shopping center off Park Avenue and Getwell Road in Memphis. He was arrested without injury or incident.

The U.S. Marshals Two Rivers Violent Fugitive Task Force is a multi-agency task force within Western Tennessee. The TRVFTF has offices in Memphis and Jackson, and its membership is primarily composed of Deputy U.S. Marshals, Shelby, Fayette, and Tipton County Sheriff’s Deputies, Memphis and Jackson Police Officers, the Tennessee Department of Correction Special Agents and the Tennessee Highway Patrol. Since 2021, the Two Rivers Violent Fugitive Task Force has captured over 2,600 violent offenders and sexual predators.

Source: U.S. Marshals Service, usmarshals.gov