Soldier Murdered In Memphis Buried With Honors

Soldier Killed In Downtown Shooting Buried With Honor
MYFOX Memphis
By Lynnanne Nguyen, Reporter
Posted: Jun 01, 2015

MEMPHIS, Tenn. (FOX13) - Sgt. Calvin Wilhite, Jr. was buried with honor Monday morning as friends, family, and fellow soldiers gathered at the State Veterans Cemetery in East Memphis to honor his life and service.

Wilhite was killed behind FedEx Forum on Memorial Day Weekend while walking from Beale Street with his girlfriend.

Police are still searching for his killer. It's now been more than a week and still no answers for this family.

"It's sad that so many veterans can come and go to Iraq, and make it back, and then when they get back, they get killed at home for trying to protect the same people,” Wilhite's father, Calvin Wilhite, Sr. told FOX13.

It was a burial fit for a hero, though Sgt. Calvin Wilhite, Jr. didn't die in battle, but on the streets of Memphis.

“It's really hard to process losing a soldier in battle is different than losing one on home soil,” Wilhite's Commanding Officer, Capt. Kelly Hendershott, said. “All these soldiers are like my children, I treat them as such."
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