Alfonzo Buford is charged with first-degree murder and especially aggravated kidnapping.
Author: Istvan Bardos
Updated: 11:17 AM CST January 5, 2021
MEMPHIS, Tenn — UPDATE 1/5/2021 - A man is behind bars, charged in a deadly shooting this weekend in southeast Memphis.
Alfonzo Buford is charged with first-degree murder and especially aggravated kidnapping.
According to the police affidavit, a man who was supposed to work on a vacant property on Flowering Peach arrived Saturday morning and found a man in a pull of blood. The victim, who was dead, was later identified Broderick Moore of Greenwood, Mississippi.
The police affidavit said Moore's wife told them the night before about midnight, her husband called asking her to bring a large amount of money and drugs to a gas station on Mendenhall in Memphis. She said she called him when she got there, and he told her to put it by a dumpster, and wait for him at a nearby McDonald's, but he never showed up. The wife told police she heard Buford's voice in the background during the call.