Teen shot man in the head then enlisted his mother's help to cover up the crime, cops say

A parent successful Tennessee is accused of helping her lad screen up the execution of a 33-year-old antheral whose assemblage was recovered with a gunshot coiled successful a detached garage.

Bridgit A. Riley, 47, has been charged with tampering with grounds and accessory aft the information to first-degree murder, per Shelby County tribunal records. She's successful the Shelby County Jail connected $10,000 bond.

The lawsuit involves the disappearance of Robert Grove — and past the find of his dormant body.

On Oct. 27, 2025, Grove's parent reported to the Memphis Police Department that helium was missing, according to an apprehension affidavit reviewed by Law&Crime. His household said helium had near his location successful a Chevy Avalanche astatine astir 11:30 p.m. the erstwhile night.

"During the investigation, household members of Grove located his Chevy Avalanche successful the parking batch of the Surrey Apartments" successful the city. They opened the pickup truck's doorway to find "what appeared to beryllium a ample magnitude of humor wrong connected the floorboard of the driver's broadside of the vehicle."

The household members said they besides recovered 2 telephone cases belonging to Grove "on the crushed nearby," but determination were nary phones with them. Officers continued investigating.

Nearby cameras seemingly showed Grove's conveyance entering the parking batch of the Surrey Apartments gathering astatine astir 12:25 a.m. connected Oct. 27 and past leaving 4 minutes later. At astir 1:09 a.m., the conveyance returned to the parking spot wherever his household recovered it.

But the footage did not seizure Grove exiting the vehicle. Instead, a "thin antheral could beryllium seen exiting the conveyance and walking distant connected foot. This idiosyncratic did not person the aforesaid carnal features arsenic Robert Grove," the tribunal papers adds.

The probe went on. On Nov. 2, 2025, officers were searching for Grove's assemblage successful the country of Egypt Central Road due to the fact that that's the past determination wherever his household tracked his iPhone.

They were successful; Grove's remains "were successful a detached garage," and investigators determined that helium had "suffered injuries from an evident gunshot coiled to the head." Spent slug casings were besides recovered adjacent his body.

Authorities got hunt warrants for cellphone information — seeking to larn what devices were astir the 2 locations successful the clip periods successful question. On Feb. 16, they got a match; a telephone fig belonging to a 17-year-old lad had "activations accordant with question patterns of Robert Grove's conveyance and the determination of Robert Grove's assemblage betterment location."

On April 29, information officers astatine the 17-year-old's schoolhouse detained him and brought him to beryllium interviewed. The boy, however, "did not privation to talk with investigators," the affidavit stated.

Investigators were besides reportedly looking astatine Riley, the teen's mother. They obtained jailhouse calls betwixt her and different person, during which she allegedly discussed her son's instrumentality having photos of him successful the victim's vehicle.

She "discussed destroying the telephone and perchance going to different country," per the affidavit. On a caller telephone with the son's aforesaid number, idiosyncratic reportedly stated that they acceptable "him up a new" Apple ID and that the different telephone was gone, besides suggesting it was "smashed" and thrown successful the Mississippi River.

Riley was arrested connected July 6. Her lad was besides arrested that time and charged with first-degree execution and particularly aggravated robbery, the Memphis Police Department told Law&Crime.

It was not instantly wide whether Riley's lad volition beryllium charged arsenic an adult.

Riley's adjacent tribunal quality is scheduled for Tuesday.