MEMPHIS, Tenn. — A security guard accused of shooting a man to death in a Kroger parking lot after an argument over loud music is a former police officer from Horn Lake, Mississippi, authorities there confirmed.
Gregory Livingston was a former officer employed with the City of Horn Lake from August 1998 until he resigned April 2001, a commander at the Horn Lake Police Department said.
State records show that at the time of the shooting he was not a licensed armed security guard. His license was expired and he was in the process of renewing.
A Kroger spokesperson said he was an employee of Allied Universal Security. That company’s Memphis office had no comment Monday.
Livingston, 54, is charged with second-degree murder in the death of Alvin Motley, who was shot to death Saturday evening at a Kroger Fuel Center at Poplar and Kirby.
“I’m still shaky thinking about it, you know. I don’t think I’ll ever forget the sound,” a witness said. “We have all been in arguments and you don’t just raise your gun up and shoot anyone because someone said something out of the way to you. It was just uncalled for.”
“This man took the love of my life away from me. You didn’t give me no chance to have a future with my husband that I was about to marry in two months,” Rolanda Johnson, Motley’s fiancé told us.
