Family of man allegedly killed over loud music by security guard asks for justice

Ben Crump called on the Shelby County DA and Kroger to take responsibility.

A Black man on his way to visit his niece and nephew was fatally shot by a security guard in Memphis, Tennessee, Saturday evening over an argument about loud music, according to an arrest affidavit obtained by ABC News. Alvin Motley Jr., who was described by his family at a press conference Tuesday as disabled, was pronounced dead at the scene. He was at a Kroger fuel center with his girlfriend, Pia Foster, when he and the security guard, Gregory Livingston, got into a verbal altercation over the volume of music coming from their car, according to police. Ben Crump, a civil rights attorney representing the Motley family, said at a press conference Tuesday that this case is similar to that of Jordan Davis’, a 17-year-old Black teenager who was shot and killed in 2012 by a man who complained about Davis’ loud music. “I don’t care how loud you think it is. You do not have a right to kill a young black man for playing music,” Crump said Tuesday. “Jordan was one too many. Alvin is by far too many.”