PARIS, TN - Wiping away tears, Katrina Teague looks through a stack of yellowed photographs.
"You can ask his friends, he would help anybody with anything," she remembered.
Those pictures are all she has left of her cousin. Eric Kinley, 42, was gunned down inside Fahrenheit 101 early Saturday morning. The father to a 7-year-old son and a 3-year-old daughter had left Paris for Virginia where he received a basketball scholarship.
After graduation, he headed to Nashville. He was currently employed with McKesson, a health care company.
"It hurts so bad. Oh, God," Teague admitted Monday, breaking into sobs over the cousin she considered a brother.
It was Teague's son who had gotten the big break. He was going to perform at Fahrenheit 101. Kinley was in town to support him.
Henry County Sheriff Monte Belew says that would not pan out. He says trouble began almost immediately, over a woman:
"He is truly a victim in this scenario. He was trying to be passive, walk away from it."
Instead, Belew says Kinley was shot in the back 3 times with a semi-automatic 9 mm gun, "These little gang bangers, to take his life. They don't deserve to be on the streets.
Tevin Lumpkin, 20, and his cousin, 22-year-old Charles Liphford are wanted in connection to the crime. Lumpkin is accused of shooting Eric Kinley.
The Sheriff says while both are gang members, the shooting is not gang related.
Belew went to high school with the victim, remembering him as "a really nice guy."
He said Monday he was determined to give an old friend justice and a hurting family closure.
"He didn't deserve this," Katrina Teague said.
Sheriff Belew says Fahrenheit 101 will stay open but things will be a little different. Rap groups will no longer be able to perform. That decision was made by club's management, along with the Sheriff.
Suspects Tevin Lumpkin and Charles Liphford are from the Milan, Tennessee area but could be in Nashville.
Lumpkin has been added to the TBI's 10 Most Wanted List.
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