Overview

• Officers responded to shots near Macaulay Drive and Macaulay Cove around 12:20 a.m. on August 10 and discovered multiple homes and vehicles hit before finding 25-year-old Cordney Smith fatally shot near Maritavia Street and Georgian Drive.
• Family and longtime partner Kya Smith identified the victim on social media as FastCash CMoney and launched a GoFundMe campaign to cover funeral expenses and support his children.
• A funeral service for Cordney Smith is scheduled for August 23, drawing tributes from peers and fans throughout Memphis’s hip-hop community.
• Smith was one-half of the Fast Cash Boyz collective and had recently opened for GloRilla at July’s Glo Bash as an independent artist gaining local momentum.
• Authorities are probing an alleged escalating feud among rival groups that witnesses say culminated in the chaotic, multi-location exchange of gunfire, underscoring a persistent pattern of violence in the city’s rap scene.