Source: US Marshals Service
Memphis, TN – Jarvis Cole, wanted in Shelby County for a 2023 murder, was arrested by the U.S. Marshals Service (USMS) in Michigan on February 20, 2025.
On Tuesday, June 6, 2023, the Memphis Police Department (MPD) responded to a shooting call in the 3500 block of Ridgemont Avenue. A male, later identified as Jalon Williams, had been dropped off at Memphis Fire Station #49 with multiple gunshot wounds. He was transported to an area hospital but succumbed to his wounds and died.
Following an investigation by MPD detectives, on February 13, 2025, a warrant for first-degree murder and convicted felon in possession of a handgun was issued for the arrest of Jarvis Cole, age 43. The Shelby County Sheriff’s Fugitive Apprehension Team (FAT) and the USMS Two Rivers Violent Fugitive Task Force (TRVFTF) in Memphis investigated the fugitive case and determined that Cole was in Battle Creek, Michigan.
On February 20, the USMS fugitive task force in Lansing went to a residence in Battle Creek and took Cole into custody without incident. He is currently being held at a Michigan detention facility awaiting extradition to Tennessee.
The U.S. Marshals Service Two Rivers Violent Fugitive Task Force is a multi-agency task force within Western Tennessee. The TRVFTF has offices in Memphis and Jackson, and its membership is primarily composed of Deputy U.S. Marshals, Shelby, Fayette, Tipton, and Gibson County Sheriff’s Deputies, Memphis and Jackson Police Officers, Tennessee Department of Correction Special Agents and the Tennessee Highway Patrol. Since 2021, the TRVFTF has captured over 3,000 violent offenders and sexual predators.