Police say the 18-year-old admitted the killing after a relative accused the man of touching a child.
MEMPHIS, Tenn. — An 18-year-old woman has been charged with first-degree murder after Memphis police said she admitted fatally shooting a 58-year-old man whose body was found in a street before dawn on Feb. 26 in the Willowview area.
The arrest pushed a grim street-side homicide into a broader criminal case centered on what investigators say happened in the hours before the shooting and the steps taken afterward. Police identified the dead man as Noe Santillan Rincon. Investigators said the suspect, Alishon Torres, told them she acted after a family member accused Rincon of touching a young relative. Torres also faces charges of employing a firearm in the commission of a felony and tampering with evidence.
According to investigators, an officer on patrol found Rincon lying in the roadway just before 2 a.m. on Feb. 26. Family members later identified him, and funeral records list him as 58 years old and show that he died that same day. The medical examiner determined that Rincon had been shot about 14 times, including once in the head. Detectives said their work led them from the body in the street to a chain of events that started earlier, after a child in the family said Rincon had touched her inappropriately. Police said Torres later acknowledged that accusation drove her actions.
Investigators said Torres told them she came across Rincon in the Willowview area while he was sitting in a van. She asked to borrow his phone, police said, then opened fire while he was still inside the vehicle. Detectives said Torres described firing about 10 shots in the van. Afterward, police said, she took a photo showing blood inside the vehicle, then moved the van from the scene. Authorities allege she drove it to an abandoned house, painted over parts of it and later left it at an apartment complex. Those details became part of the evidence supporting the tampering charge. Police have not publicly described any other person as taking part in the shooting.
The case leaves several important questions unanswered. Investigators have not publicly released a fuller timeline showing exactly when the accusation involving the child was made, when Torres found Rincon, or whether the allegation had been reported to law enforcement before the shooting. Police also have not publicly described any forensic findings from the van beyond the account included in court records and reporting on the arrest. What is clear from the charges is that authorities are treating the killing as an intentional act and the aftermath as a separate effort to hide evidence.
Rincon’s death has also moved beyond a police file into a family loss marked by funeral arrangements in Memphis and burial plans in Mexico. Obituary records list visitation services in early March at a Sycamore View Road funeral home. That public record, while brief, placed the homicide in a human frame that extended past the street where officers first found the body. At the same time, the arrest of an 18-year-old suspect gave the case another layer, turning it into a prosecution that will now test the evidence gathered by detectives and the statements they say Torres made.
As of the arrest, police had announced three charges: first-degree murder, employing a firearm in the commission of a felony and tampering with evidence. Authorities had not publicly outlined any defense response or disclosed additional court scheduling details in the reporting available this week. The next phase is expected to unfold in Shelby County’s court system, where prosecutors will have to present the case record behind the charges and defense counsel will have the chance to challenge the state’s account.
For now, the case stands at the arrest stage: a man dead in the street, a teenager accused of pulling the trigger, and investigators pointing to a child’s accusation as the event that set everything in motion. The next public milestone will come when court proceedings begin to lay out the evidence in fuller detail.
Author note: Last updated March 8, 2026.