A Memphis mother who came home at nearly two in the morning to find a 20-year-old man concealed beneath her 13-year-old daughter's bed now faces a first-degree murder charge, and the question of whether she was defending her child or executing a fleeing man will be settled in a Shelby County courtroom.
Kendra Scott, 36, told police she 'did what I had to do' after the shooting in the Walker Homes neighbourhood in the early hours of Thursday 16 July. Officers found Rodderius Morton dead in her front garden with a gunshot wound to the back of the head, a detail that sits at the centre of the prosecution case.
