Arrest made after man stabbed to death, another hit with cinder block in Edge District attack
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (WMC) - A man is charged with murder after an attack in the Edge District on Monday.
Police were flagged down by a witness who saw the attack happen on Monroe Avenue.
The witness pointed out the suspect, who he said was responsible for attacking two people.
According to the police report, the incident started when a man and his wife were walking down Monroe Avenue after deciding to stop at High Cotton Brewery.
That’s when, police say, the man was hit in the head with a cinder block in an unprovoked attack.
The suspect was then seen running down Monroe. Two men who witnessed the attack followed him to a nearby construction site.
The two spotted the suspect near a vacant building.
One of the witnesses, later identified as Phil Godwin, followed the suspect into a vacant building while the other flagged down police officers.
The suspect, later identified as Antwon Freeman, was then seen exiting the building alone.
Police say Freeman’s hands were covered in blood and he had a long kitchen knife under his shirt.
Officers then checked the vacant building for Godwin and found him unresponsive with several stab wounds.
He was pronounced dead at the scene.
Godwin’s family, who live in Rossville, Tennessee, say “he was a wonderful man who loved Memphis” and say he also visited High Cotton Brewery frequently.
According to the police report, Freeman told officers that he was walking down Monroe Avenue when someone threw a rock at him and yelled racial slurs.
He then says he believed the man he saw walking was that person, so he attacked him with a cinder block.
While hiding from the two men that chased, he heard footsteps and stabbed the person before blacking out, the police report says.
Freeman is charged with aggravated assault and first-degree murder.
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